A survey of cookie technology adoption amongst nations

Authors:
Andrew F. Tappenden;James Miller
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada;Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
Venue:
Journal of Web Engineering
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a novel survey probing the use of cookies with respect to country of origin and related web technologies. A number of significant relationships are established between the origin of the web application and cookie deployment. Cookie usage amongst five popular dynamic web application frameworks is analyzed providing a per-country breakdown of platform adoption and the establishment of a link between dynamic web technologies and first-party and sessional cookies. The prevalence of vendor-specific third-party technologies both globally and within specific countries is studied. Although global leaders emerged, a number of country-specific market leaders were discovered, suggesting that country-specific niche technologies are competing with the globally dominant technologies within specific markets. A large association is identified between third-party persistent cookie usage and a country's e-business environment--the strongest evidence that cookies are an integral part of the global e-commerce environment.