🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Preconnect
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is noticeably more popular than Preconnect.
- 🌎 DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Preconnect is more popular in Thailand, Korea, and Cyprus.
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.
The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML <link> elements.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #2
Performance Optimization › Rank #3
Standards › Rank #6
Standards › Rank #8
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 1.3 times more popular than Preconnect.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
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 Preconnect is more popular in Thailand, Korea, and Cyprus.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
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 Thailand in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cyprus in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Performance Optimization 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 Preconnect is more commonly used on online shopping and finance and banking sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Health
Sports
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.