🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Pingback
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is twice as popular as Pingback.
- 🌎 DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌎 Pingback is more popular in Pitcairn and the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
DNS Prefetch
PingbackType
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.
Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 2.2 times more popular than Pingback.
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 Pingback is more popular in Pitcairn and the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
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.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Macedonia 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 Pingback is more commonly used on recreation and hobbies, games, and religion and ideology sites.
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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Speculation Rules
Instant.Page🗃️ 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 3,532,692 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.