🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. WCAG

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
DNS Prefetch
WCAG

Type

Performance technology
Standard

About

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

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are a set of recommendations for making web content more accessible, developed by W3C.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

html.spec.whatwg.org
w3.org #12,884

Categories

Performance › Rank #2
Standards › Rank #6
Standards › Rank #45

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

DNS Prefetch performance technology is 1,805 times more popular than WCAG.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

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

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#3
#7
#12
#13
#14
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Name
Rank
#1,324
#2,297
#2,582
#5,462
#6,468
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