🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Sitemap
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than Sitemap.
- 🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SitemapType
Performance optimization technology
Standard
About
The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements.
A sitemap is a file in 
XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 77 times more popular than Sitemap.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than Sitemap 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.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Slovenia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
DNS Prefetch is more popular than Sitemap 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.
Name
Rank
#94
#836
#903
#956
#965
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
Speculation Rules
Pingback🗃️ 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.