⚡ Networking

Networking technologies are protocols, standards, and mechanisms that provide secure and reliable delivery of web content, data exchange management, security policies, and performance optimization between servers and clients.

According to our data, networking technologies are used on 89.9% of all websites.
19.7% of these sites use only one networking technology, 31.4% use two, and 48.9% use three or more simultaneously.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the leading networking technologies in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is TLS with an impressive share of 78.8%, followed by HTTP 2+ with 72% and Cookies with 36.2%.

TLS 78.8%
HTTP 2+ 72%
Cookies 36.2%
HSTS 24.5%
♯ ETag 18.8%
CSP 13.4%
↪ Redirect 9%
QUIC 6.8%
CORS 3.5%
FTP 0.01%

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🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of technologies that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

HTTP 2+ is #1 in Indonesia ^(-1)
Cookies is #1 in China ^(-2)
HSTS is #3 in Switzerland ^(-1)
QUIC is #3 in Iran ^(-5)
♯ ETag is #4 in Japan ^(-1)
CSP is #4 in India ^(-2)
CORS is #7 in Thailand ^(-2)

✨ Best Networking Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of all networking technologies we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	TLS Fremont, California, United States A cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption of data sent over the Internet.	78.8%
2	HTTP 2+ Fremont, California, United States One of the main protocols used on the Internet to retrieve resources such as HTML documents and images.	72%
3	Cookies Fremont, California, United States Small pieces of data that a website sends to a visitor's web browser when they visit.	36.2%
4	HSTS Fremont, California, United States The HTTP Strict Transport Security standard ensures that a user's browser always connects to a website using HTTPS.	24.5%
5	♯ ETag Fremont, California, United States An identifier for a specific version of a resource that is used for cache validation.	18.8%
6	CSP Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The Content-Security-Policy HTTP response header and meta tag are used to control what resources a given page can load.	13.4%
-	↪ Redirect Cross-domain redirection that sends visitors to a different domain.	9%
8	QUIC Fremont, California, United States A multiplexed transport layer network protocol built on top of UDP, originally developed at Google.	6.8%
9	CORS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An HTTP header-based mechanism used to safely bypass same-origin policy and allow requests to other domains.	3.5%
10	FTP Fremont, California, United States A standard network protocol for transferring files between a server and a client.	0.01%

Data is based on the analysis of 2,764,714 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on December 28, 2025.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.