🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. HTML

📈 HTML is three times more popular than DNS Prefetch.
🌍 HTML is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

DNS Prefetch

HTML

Type

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.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.

It defines the structure of web content using elements for text, links, images, forms, tables, and embedded media, organizes documents into a hierarchical DOM, and enables hyperlinking between pages, which is a fundamental mechanism of the World Wide Web.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

html.spec.whatwg.org

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

HTML is 2.8 times more popular than DNS Prefetch.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

HTML is more popular than DNS Prefetch in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

France

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

Russia

Australia

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.

🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the Standards category.
🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

HTML is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while DNS Prefetch is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, travel, and health sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Marketing/Merchandising

General News

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#13

#14

#16

#23

Name

Rank