🆚 Preconnect vs. Quicklink
- 📈 Preconnect is much more popular than Quicklink.
- 🌍 Preconnect is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Quicklink is particularly popular in Germany.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PreconnectType
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.
Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching or prerendering in-viewport links during idle time.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #3
Performance Optimization › Rank #27
Standards › Rank #8
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #200
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Preconnect performance optimization technology is 516 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
France
Germany
Japan
Netherlands
Spain
Australia
India
Italy
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.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Canada in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Belgium in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Spain in the Performance Optimization category.
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
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Health
General News
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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.