🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. jQuery LazyLoad
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than jQuery LazyLoad.
- 🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ jQuery LazyLoad is particularly popular in China.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
DNS PrefetchType
Performance optimization technology
JavaScript library
About
The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements.
A deprecated 
jQuery lazy loading plugin.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #2
Performance Optimization › Rank #13
Standards › Rank #6
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #74
Legacy › Rank #13
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 66 times more popular than jQuery LazyLoad.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than jQuery LazyLoad in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Tanzania in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in China in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Korea in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Korea in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than jQuery LazyLoad in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Health
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.