RTCInboundRtpStreamStats: pauseCount property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The pauseCount property of the RTCRemoteInboundRtpStreamStats dictionary indicates the total number of pauses experienced by this receiver.

A pause is counted when a new frame is rendered more than 5 seconds after the last frame was rendered.

The average pause duration can be calculated using totalPausesDuration / pauseCount.

Note: The property is undefined for audio streams.

Value

A positive integer.

Specification
Identifiers for WebRTC's Statistics API # dom-rtcinboundrtpstreamstats-pausecount

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`pauseCount` in 'inbound-rtp' stats Experimental	Chrome – No support Chrome footnote No support	Edge – No support Edge footnote No support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 142 (Release date: 2025-08-19) footnote Full support	Opera – No support Opera footnote No support	Safari – No support Safari footnote No support	Chrome Android – No support Chrome Android footnote No support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 142 (Release date: 2025-08-19) footnote Full support	Opera Android – No support Opera Android footnote No support	Safari on iOS – No support Safari on iOS footnote No support	Samsung Internet – No support Samsung Internet footnote No support	WebView Android – No support WebView Android footnote No support	WebView on iOS – No support WebView on iOS footnote No support

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