🆚 Lazy loading vs. Speculation Rules

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Lazy loading is twice as popular as Speculation Rules.
🌎 Lazy loading is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Speculation Rules is more popular in Swaziland, the Marshall Islands, and the Central African Republic.

Type

Performance 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 Speculation Rules API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

html.spec.whatwg.org

wicg.github.io

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Lazy loading performance technology is 2.2 times more popular than Speculation Rules.

Total websites

Market share

Performance

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Lazy loading is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Speculation Rules is more popular in Swaziland, the Marshall Islands, and the Central African Republic.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Japan

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

Australia

India

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Performance category.
🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Performance category.

🥉 Third most popular in Trinidad and Tobago in the Performance category.
🥉 Third most popular in Rwanda in the Performance category.
🥉 Third most popular in Jersey in the Performance category.
🥉 Third most popular in Guyana in the Performance category.
🥉 Third most popular in Somalia in the Performance category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Lazy loading is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Speculation Rules is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, games, and politics and opinion sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Health

General News

Sports