🆚 HTML vs. Preload
- 📈 HTML is four times more popular than Preload.
- 🌍 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="preload" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to fetch important resources early before they are requested during page rendering.
It is commonly used to prioritize fonts, stylesheets, scripts, images, and other critical assets, helping reduce render delays and improve page loading performance.
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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 Germany in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Saint Helena in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkmenistan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Austria 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

