⚡ Networking in China

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.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our data, networking technologies are used on 77.2% of websites from China.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top networking technologies in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Cookies with an impressive share of 49.1%, followed by TLS with 46.4% and HTTP 2+ with 37.5%.

Cookies 49.1%
TLS 46.4%
HTTP 2+ 37.5%
♯ ETag 25.2%
HSTS 24.9%
CSP 10.7%
↪ Redirect 9.1%
CORS 4.2%
QUIC 2%
FTP 0.01%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Cookies ^(-2)
4. ♯ ETag ^(-1)
8. CORS ^(-1)

✨ Best Networking Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 10 networking technologies used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Cookies Fremont, California, United States Small pieces of data that a website sends to a visitor's web browser when they visit.	49.1%
2	TLS Fremont, California, United States A cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption of data transmitted over the Internet, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and authentication between communicating systems.	46.4%
3	HTTP 2+ Fremont, California, United States An application-layer protocol used to transfer resources such as HTML documents, images, and other web content, forming the foundation of data communication in web browsers.	37.5%
4	♯ ETag Fremont, California, United States An identifier for a specific version of a resource that is used for cache validation.	25.2%
5	HSTS Fremont, California, United States The HTTP Strict Transport Security standard ensures that a user's browser always connects to a website using HTTPS.	24.9%
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.	10.7%
7	↪ Redirect Cross-domain redirection that sends visitors to a different domain.	9.1%
8	CORS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An HTTP header-based mechanism used to safely bypass same-origin policy and allow requests to other domains.	4.2%
9	QUIC Fremont, California, United States A multiplexed transport layer network protocol built on top of UDP, originally developed at Google.	2%
10	FTP Fremont, California, United States A standard network protocol for transferring files between a server and a client.	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Networking in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 82,655 websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.