🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Flying Pages
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than Flying Pages.
- 🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.
DNS PrefetchType
About
The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to resolve domain names for external resources before those resources are requested.
It is commonly used for third-party domains serving scripts, fonts, analytics, advertisements, or media files, helping reduce DNS lookup latency and improve loading performance for external connections.
Flying Pages is a 
WordPress performance plugin that preloads pages in the browser before navigation to deliver near-instant page transitions.
It injects a lightweight script of about 1 KB, detects links in the viewport and on mouse hover to start prefetching, limits requests using an internal queue, pauses preloading when the server is under load, and skips it entirely for slow connections or data-saver modes to avoid unnecessary resource usage.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 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.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Australia in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Japan in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Italy in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Switzerland in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Speculation Rules
Instant.Page🗃️ 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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.