🆚 HTML vs. Preconnect
- 📈 HTML is four times more popular than Preconnect.
- 🌍 HTML is more popular in all countries.
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About
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.
It defines the structure of web content using elements for text, links, images, forms, tables, and embedded media, organizes documents into a hierarchical DOM, and enables hyperlinking between pages, which is a fundamental mechanism of the World Wide Web.
The rel="preconnect" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements instructs browsers to establish early connections to external origins before resources are requested.
It is used to reduce latency by opening DNS lookup, TCP handshake, and TLS negotiation in advance for critical third-party domains such as CDNs, font providers, and analytics services.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bangladesh in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Kazakhstan in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,813,555 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.