🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. oEmbed

📈 DNS Prefetch is slightly more popular than oEmbed.
🌎 DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 oEmbed is more popular in Germany, Spain, and Italy.

Statistics based on 3.9M+ analyzed websites. About this data

DNS Prefetch

oEmbed

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.

oEmbed is an open format that allows websites to embed representations of external URLs such as videos, images, and posts from third-party services.

It defines a simple API that returns structured metadata in JSON or XML for generating content previews, and supports multiple content types including video, photo, link, and rich embeds.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

html.spec.whatwg.org

oembed.com

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 1.1 times more popular than oEmbed.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while oEmbed is more popular in Germany, Spain, and Italy.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Japan

Spain

France

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.

⭐ 4th most popular in Libya in the Standards category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Guinea in the Standards category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
⭐ 6th most popular in South Africa in the Standards category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Finland 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 oEmbed is more commonly used on non-profit, advocacy and NGO, travel, and recreation and hobbies sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#13

#14

#16

#17

Name

Rank

#37

#239

#249

#354

#463