🆚 Preconnect vs. Quicklink

Type

Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology

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.

Quicklink is an open-source JavaScript library from the Google Chrome team that speeds up subsequent page loads by prefetching links likely to be visited next.

It automatically detects links visible in the viewport, waits until the browser is idle, skips slow or data-saver connections, supports both prefetching and prerendering, and provides controls for request priority, throttling, allowed origins, and ignored URLs.

Headquarters

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

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Performance Optimization › Rank #4
Performance Optimization › Rank #26
Standards › Rank #9
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #198

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Preconnect performance optimization technology is 491 times more popular than Quicklink.
Total websites

Market share

Performance Optimization

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Preconnect is more popular than Quicklink in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Germany
Spain
Australia
Netherlands
Italy
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Preconnect is more popular than Quicklink in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#12
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Rank
#2,367
#5,635
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See also

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