🆚 CGI vs. DNS Prefetch
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than CGI.
- 🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
DNS PrefetchType
Standard
Performance optimization technology
About
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.
The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements.
Headquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 43 times more popular than CGI.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than CGI in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Palestine in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Nepal in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Tunisia in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than CGI in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Speculation Rules
Apache Software Foundation company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.