🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Quicklink
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than Quicklink.
- 🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Quicklink is particularly popular in Germany.
DNS Prefetch
QuicklinkType
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.
Quicklink is an open-source 
JavaScript library from the Google Chrome team that speeds up subsequent page loads by prefetching links likely to be visited next.
It automatically detects links visible in the viewport, waits until the browser is idle, skips slow or data-saver connections, supports both prefetching and prerendering, and provides controls for request priority, throttling, allowed origins, and ignored URLs.
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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 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.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Canada in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Spain in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Italy 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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- 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.