🆚 Preconnect vs. Speculation Rules

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.

The Speculation Rules API is a browser API that improves navigation performance by prefetching or prerendering pages that users are likely to visit next.

It uses JSON-based rules embedded in HTML or HTTP headers, and is designed as a successor to older techniques such as Prefetch and the deprecated Prerender attribute.

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Headquarters

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

Website

Categories

Performance Optimization › Rank #3
Performance Optimization › Rank #5
Standards › Rank #8
Standards › Rank #11

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Preconnect performance optimization technology is 1.5 times more popular than Speculation Rules.
Total websites

Market share

Performance Optimization
Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Preconnect is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Speculation Rules is more popular in Iran, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Japan
Spain
Australia
Netherlands
Italy
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Preconnect is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Speculation Rules is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and travel sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#12
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