🆚 Preconnect vs. Prefetch
- 📈 Preconnect is much more popular than Prefetch.
- 🌍 Preconnect is more popular in all countries.
PreconnectType
About
The rel="preconnect" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements instructs browsers to establish early connections to external origins before resources are requested.
It is used to reduce latency by opening DNS lookup, TCP handshake, and TLS negotiation in advance for critical third-party domains such as CDNs, font providers, and analytics services.
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
Categories
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 Thailand in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cyprus in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Performance Optimization 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Speculation Rules
Instant.Page🗃️ 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.