🆚 WebRTC vs. WebSocket
- 📈 WebSocket is much more popular than WebRTC.
- 🌎 WebSocket is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 WebRTC is more popular in Algeria, Iraq, and Senegal.
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About
WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is a set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.
WebSocket is a communication protocol that enables persistent, full-duplex data exchange between a client and a server over a single TCP connection.
It maintains a long-lived connection that allows low-latency message exchange, supports both text and binary frames, minimizes overhead by avoiding repeated request headers, and enables servers to push data to clients in real time.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Russia in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the Netherlands in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Poland in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Kazakhstan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Ukraine in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belarus 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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- 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.