⚡ 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 91.8% of all websites.
18.7% of these sites use only one networking technology, 30% use two, and 51.4% use three or more simultaneously.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is TLS with an impressive share of 79.6%, followed by HTTP 2+ with 72.3% and Cookies with 37.8%.

TLS 79.6%
HTTP 2+ 72.3%
Cookies 37.8%
HSTS 26.3%
♯ ETag 18.9%
CSP 14.9%
↪ Redirect 11%
QUIC 6.4%
CORS 3.6%
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)
♯ ETag is #2 in the British Virgin Islands ^(-3)
HSTS is #3 in Switzerland ^(-1)
QUIC is #3 in Iran ^(-5)
CSP is #4 in India ^(-2)
↪ Redirect is #6 in Germany ^(-1)

✨ Best Networking Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 10 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 transmitted over the Internet, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and authentication between communicating systems.	79.6%
2	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.	72.3%
3	Cookies Fremont, California, United States Small pieces of data that a website sends to a visitor's web browser when they visit.	37.8%
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.	26.3%
5	♯ ETag Fremont, California, United States An identifier for a specific version of a resource that is used for cache validation.	18.9%
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.	14.9%
7	↪ Redirect Cross-domain redirection that sends visitors to a different domain.	11%
8	QUIC Fremont, California, United States A multiplexed transport layer network protocol built on top of UDP, originally developed at Google.	6.4%
9	CORS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An HTTP header-based mechanism used to safely bypass same-origin policy and allow requests to other domains.	3.6%
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 3,325,341 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on March 31, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.