🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Less

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than Less.
🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.

DNS Prefetch

Less

Type

Performance technology

Standard

About

The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements.

Less ("Leaner Style Sheets") is a backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

html.spec.whatwg.org

lesscss.org #2,039,198

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

DNS Prefetch performance technology is 58 times more popular than Less.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

DNS Prefetch is more popular than Less 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 category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Performance category.

🔥 14th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Slovakia in the Standards category.
🔥 15th most popular in Iceland in the Standards category.
🔥 16th most popular in Belarus in the Standards category.
🔥 17th most popular in Russia in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

DNS Prefetch is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Less is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

General News

Health

Sports