🆚 PageSpeed vs. Prefetch
- 📈 Prefetch is three times more popular than PageSpeed.
- 🌎 Prefetch is more popular in the United States, Vietnam, and Germany.
- 🌍 PageSpeed is more popular in Japan, Ukraine, and Poland.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PageSpeed
PrefetchType
Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology
About
An open-source web server module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth, available for Apache and 
Nginx.
The rel="prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.
It allows caching resources in advance with low priority and is commonly used for next-page documents, scripts, styles, or assets in multi-step flows.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #12
Performance Optimization › Rank #7
Web Server Modules › Rank #2
Standards › Rank #17
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Prefetch performance optimization technology is 2.7 times more popular than PageSpeed.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Prefetch is more popular in the United States, Vietnam, and Germany, while PageSpeed is more popular in Japan, Ukraine, and Poland.
United States
Vietnam
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
Ukraine
France
Spain
Netherlands
Russia
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ghana in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Web Server Modules category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Vietnam in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Thailand in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Iran in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Cambodia in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Iceland in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Prefetch is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while PageSpeed is more commonly used on motor vehicles sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Travel
Entertainment
Fashion/Beauty
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Speculation Rules
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Google company profile🗃️ 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 3,528,374 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.