🆚 Preload vs. Quicklink

Type

Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology

About

The rel="preload" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to fetch important resources early before they are requested during page rendering.

It is commonly used to prioritize fonts, stylesheets, scripts, images, and other critical assets, helping reduce render delays and improve page loading performance.

Quicklink is an open-source JavaScript library from the Google Chrome team that speeds up subsequent page loads by prefetching links likely to be visited next.

It automatically detects links visible in the viewport, waits until the browser is idle, skips slow or data-saver connections, supports both prefetching and prerendering, and provides controls for request priority, throttling, allowed origins, and ignored URLs.

Headquarters

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

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Performance Optimization › Rank #4
Performance Optimization › Rank #27
Standards › Rank #9
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #199

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Preload performance optimization technology is 450 times more popular than Quicklink.
Total websites

Market share

Performance Optimization

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Preload is more popular than Quicklink in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Spain
Australia
Japan
Italy
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Preload is more popular than Quicklink in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Travel
Entertainment
Health
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#12
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Name
Rank
#1,025
#2,367
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See also

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