🆚 HTML vs. Speculation Rules

Type

Standard
Performance optimization technology

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.

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The Speculation Rules API is a browser API that improves navigation performance by prefetching or prerendering pages that users are likely to visit next.

It uses JSON-based rules embedded in HTML or HTTP headers, and is designed as a successor to older techniques such as Prefetch and the deprecated Prerender attribute.

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Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Categories

Standards › Rank #2
Standards › Rank #11
Performance Optimization › Rank #5

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

HTML is 6 times more popular than Speculation Rules.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

HTML is more popular than Speculation Rules in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
Russia
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

HTML is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Speculation Rules is more commonly used on travel, fashion and beauty, and art, culture and heritage sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
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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