🆚 Preload vs. Speculation Rules

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.

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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Headquarters

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

Website

Categories

Performance Optimization › Rank #5
Performance Optimization › Rank #3
Standards › Rank #10
Standards › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Speculation Rules performance optimization technology is 1.2 times more popular than Preload.
Total websites

Market share

Performance Optimization
Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Speculation Rules is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Preload is more popular in Russia, Indonesia, and Turkey.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Japan
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Speculation Rules is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Preload is more commonly used on online shopping, general news, and software and hardware sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#12
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