🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Preload
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is noticeably more popular than Preload.
- 🌎 DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Preload is more popular in Germany, Indonesia, and Austria.
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="preload" attribute on HTML <link> elements.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #2
Performance Optimization › Rank #4
Standards › Rank #6
Standards › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 1.5 times more popular than Preload.
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 Preload is more popular in Germany, Indonesia, and Austria.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
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 Indonesia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mongolia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Saint Helena in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkmenistan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany 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 Preload is more commonly used on online shopping, software and hardware, and finance and banking sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
General News
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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.