🆚 WebRTC vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is much more popular than WebRTC.
- 🌍 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XMLHttpRequestType
Browser API
Browser API
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.
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is a 
JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
xhr.spec.whatwg.orgCategories
Browser APIs › Rank #13
Browser APIs › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XMLHttpRequest browser API is 202 times more popular than WebRTC.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular than WebRTC in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Canada
Australia
India
France
Japan
Netherlands
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Seychelles in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular than WebRTC in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.