🆚 Prerender vs. Speculation Rules
- 📈 Speculation Rules is much more popular than Prerender.
- 🌍 Speculation Rules is more popular in all countries.
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About
The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML <link> elements is a deprecated browser hint that instructed web browsers to preload and render a web page in the background before navigation occurred.
It was used to improve perceived performance by preparing and rendering likely next pages before users opened them.
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.
Headquarters
Categories
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
- 🔥 18th most popular in Japan in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Italy in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Australia in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Denmark in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Uganda in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Trinidad and Tobago in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Rwanda in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Jersey in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Guyana 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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ 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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
