🆚 Preconnect vs. Tachyon
- 📈 Preconnect is much more popular than Tachyon.
- 🌍 Preconnect is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Preconnect
TachyonType
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.
Tachyon is a deprecated script that improves the user experience of your website by prerendering pages before a user navigates to them.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #4
Performance Optimization › Rank #34
Standards › Rank #11
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #296
Legacy › Rank #99
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Preconnect performance optimization technology is 13,963 times more popular than Tachyon.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Preconnect is more popular than Tachyon in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Germany
Spain
Australia
Netherlands
Italy
India
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in El Salvador in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Guernsey in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Preconnect is more popular than Tachyon in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Sports
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.