🆚 WebGL vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is much more popular than WebGL.
- 🌎 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 WebGL is more popular in French Polynesia, Sao Tome and Principe, and Vatican.
WebGL
XMLHttpRequestType
About
WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard that provides a low-level 
JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics directly in web browsers without plug-ins.
It is exposed through the HTML5 
canvas element, uses a shader-based architecture with GLSL, runs on the GPU for hardware-accelerated rendering, and is supported by all major browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is a JavaScript API for sending HTTP and HTTPS requests and receiving data from web servers without reloading the current page.
It supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication, allows monitoring of upload and download progress, and can exchange data in formats such as text, XML, 
JSON, and binary content.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Iran in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Russia in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.