🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Speculation Rules

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DNS Prefetch
Speculation Rules

Type

Performance technology
Performance technology

About

The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements.
The Speculation Rules API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

html.spec.whatwg.org
wicg.github.io

Categories

Performance › Rank #1
Performance › Rank #5
Standards › Rank #6
Standards › Rank #13

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

DNS Prefetch performance technology is 7 times more popular than Speculation Rules.
Total websites

Market share

Performance
Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

DNS Prefetch is more popular than Speculation Rules in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
Canada
France
Italy
Australia
Spain
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

DNS Prefetch is more popular than Speculation Rules in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Travel
Health
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#3
#8
#12
#13
#14
Name
Rank
#18
#127
#147
#163
#172

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