🆚 Prerender vs. Speculation Rules

Type

Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology

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.

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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 #22
Performance Optimization › Rank #5
Standards › Rank #34
Standards › Rank #11
Legacy › Rank #33

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Speculation Rules performance optimization technology is 159 times more popular than Prerender.
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 than Prerender in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Japan
Spain
Italy
Australia
India
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Speculation Rules is more popular than Prerender in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#6,629
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