🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. RelMeAuth
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than RelMeAuth.
- 🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Performance optimization technology
Standard
About
The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements.
RelMeAuth is a proposed open standard for using rel-me links to profiles on OAuth supporting services to authenticate via either those profiles or your own site.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 94 times more popular than RelMeAuth.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than RelMeAuth 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.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Bulgaria in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Chile in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than RelMeAuth in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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.

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