🆚 Prefetch vs. Tachyon
- 📈 Prefetch is much more popular than Tachyon.
- 🌍 Prefetch is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Prefetch
TachyonType
Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology
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.
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 #7
Performance Optimization › Rank #34
Standards › Rank #15
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #292
Legacy › Rank #97
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Prefetch performance optimization technology is 981 times more popular than Tachyon.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Prefetch is more popular than Tachyon in all countries.
United States
Vietnam
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
France
Australia
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Prefetch is more popular than Tachyon in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Travel
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.