🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Lazy loading
- 📈 Lazy loading is slightly more popular than DNS Prefetch.
- 🌎 Lazy loading is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Italy.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
DNS PrefetchType
Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology
About
The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements.
Native lazy loading is a technique to load non-critical images and iframes marked with the loading="lazy" attribute only when needed.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Lazy loading performance optimization technology is 1.1 times more popular than DNS Prefetch.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lazy loading is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France, while DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Italy.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
India
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 the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lazy loading is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while DNS Prefetch is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, entertainment, and technical, business forums sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Speculation Rules
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Partytown🗃️ 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.