🆚 Prefetch vs. Speculation Rules
- 📈 Speculation Rules is much more popular than Prefetch.
- 🌎 Speculation Rules is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Prefetch is more popular in the Netherlands Antilles.
Speculation RulesType
About
The rel="prefetch" attribute on 
HTML <link> elements tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.
It allows caching resources in advance with low priority and is commonly used for next-page documents, scripts, styles, or assets in multi-step flows.
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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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Vietnam in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sweden in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Thailand in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in South Africa in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Iran in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Switzerland in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Finland in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Trinidad and Tobago in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.