🆚 Prefetch vs. Preload
- 📈 Preload is much more popular than Prefetch.
- 🌎 Preload is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Prefetch is more popular in the Netherlands Antilles.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PrefetchType
Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology
About
The rel="prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements.
The rel="preload" attribute on HTML <link> elements.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #7
Performance Optimization › Rank #4
Standards › Rank #17
Standards › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Preload performance optimization technology is 16 times more popular than Prefetch.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Preload is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Prefetch is more popular in the Netherlands Antilles.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Spain
Australia
Japan
Italy
India
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mongolia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Saint Helena in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkmenistan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Preload is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Prefetch is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, and travel sites.
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
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.