🆚 WebRTC vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is much more popular than WebRTC.
- 🌍 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in all countries.
WebRTC
XMLHttpRequestType
About
WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is a set of APIs and protocols originally developed by 
Google that enables real-time audio, video, and peer-to-peer data communication in web browsers and mobile applications.
It supports voice and video calls, screen sharing, peer-to-peer file transfer, low-latency streaming, adaptive audio and video codecs such as Opus and VP8, and is natively supported by all major modern desktop and mobile browsers.
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.
Headquarters
Categories
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.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the United States 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Fetch
WebSocket
WebGL
Axios🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.