🆚 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.
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.
Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching or prerendering in-viewport links during idle time.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #2
Performance Optimization › Rank #26
Standards › Rank #6
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #199
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 702 times more popular than Quicklink.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than Quicklink in all countries.
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.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Canada in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Belgium in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Spain in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than Quicklink in all market segments.
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.
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Speculation Rules
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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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.