🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Prefetch
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than Prefetch.
- 🌎 DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌎 Prefetch is more popular in the United States Minor Outlying Islands.
DNS PrefetchType
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.
The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.
It allows caching resources in advance with low priority and is commonly used for next-page documents, scripts, styles, or assets in multi-step flows.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Vietnam in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sweden in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Thailand in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in South Africa in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Iran in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.