🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. XFN
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 DNS Prefetch is twice as popular as XFN.
- 🌎 DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 XFN is more popular in Thailand, Iran, and Tajikistan.
DNS Prefetch
XFNType
Performance technology
Standard
About
The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance technology is 1.6 times more popular than XFN.
Total websites
Market share
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 Germany, while XFN is more popular in Thailand, Iran, and Tajikistan.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
France
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
India
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.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Standards 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 blogs and wiki, while XFN is more commonly used on travel, recreation and hobbies, and games sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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