🆚 Lazy loading vs. Prerender
- 📈 Lazy loading is much more popular than Prerender.
- 🌍 Lazy loading is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PrerenderType
Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology
About
Native lazy loading is a technique to load non-critical images and iframes marked with the loading="lazy" attribute only when needed.
The rel="prerender" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements is a deprecated browser hint that instructed web browsers to preload and render a web page in the background before navigation occurred.
It was used to improve perceived performance by preparing and rendering likely next pages before users opened them.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #1
Performance Optimization › Rank #22
Standards › Rank #34
Legacy › Rank #33
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Lazy loading performance optimization technology is 332 times more popular than Prerender.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lazy loading is more popular than Prerender in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Japan
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
India
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Japan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Italy in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Australia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Denmark in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lazy loading is more popular than Prerender in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Speculation Rules🗃️ 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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.