🆚 DNS Prefetch vs. XHTML
- 📈 DNS Prefetch is much more popular than XHTML.
- 🌎 DNS Prefetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 XHTML is more popular in China, Korea, and Brunei Darussalam.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
DNS PrefetchType
Performance optimization technology
Standard
About
The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
DNS Prefetch performance optimization technology is 7 times more popular than XHTML.
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 Japan, while XHTML is more popular in China, Korea, and Brunei Darussalam.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
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 China in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the British Virgin Islands 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 XHTML is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards and games sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
Speculation Rules
CSS🗃️ About This Data
- 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.