🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Speculation Rules
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is twice as popular as Speculation Rules.
- 🌎 DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Speculation Rules is more popular in Burundi, Vatican, and the Central African Republic.
Speculation RulesType
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.
The Speculation Rules API is a browser API that improves navigation performance by prefetching or prerendering pages that users are likely to visit next.
It uses 
JSON-based rules embedded in HTML or HTTP headers, and is designed as a successor to older techniques such as 
Prefetch and the deprecated Prerender attribute.
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Popularity by country
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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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Uganda in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Trinidad and Tobago in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Rwanda in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Jersey in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Guyana in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
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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 3,531,690 websites.
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