🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. GraphQL
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than GraphQL.
- 🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
DNS Prefetch
GraphQLType
Performance optimization technology
Standard
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.
GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Menlo Park, California, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 25 times more popular than GraphQL.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than GraphQL in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in South Africa in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Macedonia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Iceland in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Sweden in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than GraphQL in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.