🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. PageSpeed
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than PageSpeed.
- 🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ PageSpeed is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
DNS Prefetch
PageSpeedType
Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology
About
The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements.
An open-source web server module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth, available for Apache and 
Nginx.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #2
Performance Optimization › Rank #12
Standards › Rank #6
Web Server Modules › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 64 times more popular than PageSpeed.
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 PageSpeed 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ghana in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Web Server Modules category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than PageSpeed in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Speculation Rules
Google company profile🗃️ 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 3,511,216 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.