🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. Tachyon

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than Tachyon.
🌍 DNS Prefetch is more popular in all countries.

DNS Prefetch

Tachyon

Type

Performance technology

About

The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements.

Tachyon is a deprecated script that improves the user experience of your website by prerendering pages before a user navigates to them.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

html.spec.whatwg.org

GitHub #13

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

DNS Prefetch performance technology is 14,822 times more popular than Tachyon.

Total websites

Market share

Performance

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

DNS Prefetch is more popular than Tachyon 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 category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Performance category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

DNS Prefetch is more popular than Tachyon in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

General News

Health

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#13

#14

#16

Name

Rank

#2,621

#3,576

#6,655

#8,321

#14,992