🆚 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 Vatican, the Central African Republic, and Mayotte.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

DNS Prefetch

Speculation Rules

Type

Performance optimization 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

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 2.1 times more popular than Speculation Rules.

Total websites

Market share

Performance Optimization

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Speculation Rules is more popular in Vatican, the Central African Republic, and Mayotte.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

France

Spain

Italy

Australia

Netherlands

India

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 Guyana in the Performance Optimization category.
🥉 Third most popular in New Caledonia in the Performance Optimization category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

DNS Prefetch is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Speculation Rules is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Travel

Health

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#13

#14

Name

Rank

#17

#49

#83

#93

#142