⚡ Performance

Website performance can be improved through a variety of technologies that optimize resource loading, defer non-essential content, minify HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code, and delay script execution.

According to our data, performance technologies are used on 57% of all websites.
37.4% of these sites use only one performance technology, 31.6% use two, and 31% use three or more at the same time.

We have a separate category for caching technologies.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the leading performance technologies in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is DNS Prefetch with an impressive share of 55.7%, followed by ⏳ Lazy loading with 53.2% and Preconnect with 38.6%.

DNS Prefetch 55.7%
⏳ Lazy loading 53.2%
Preconnect 38.6%
Preload 31.8%
Speculation Rules 8.2%
Lazysizes 4.7%
Autoptimize 2.6%
Rocket Loader 2.3%
Prefetch 2.2%
WP Fastest Cache 2.1%
jQuery LazyLoad 1%
WP-Optimize 1%
PageSpeed 0.9%
NitroPack 0.4%
Perfmatters 0.4%

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🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of technologies that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

⏳ Lazy loading is #1 in Germany ^(-1)
Preconnect is #1 in Thailand ^(-2)
Preload is #2 in Indonesia ^(-2)
Lazysizes is #5 in Japan ^(-1)
Prefetch is #5 in Vietnam ^(-4)
jQuery LazyLoad is #5 in China ^(-6)
WP Fastest Cache is #6 in Turkey ^(-4)
PageSpeed is #6 in Ukraine ^(-7)
WP-Optimize is #7 in South Africa ^(-5)
NitroPack is #8 in the United Arab Emirates ^(-6)

✨ Best Performance Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 32 performance technologies we track, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	DNS PrefetchCambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	55.7%
2	⏳ Lazy loadingCambridge, Massachusetts, United States A technique to load non-critical images and iframes marked with the loading="lazy" attribute only when needed.	53.2%
3	PreconnectCambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	38.6%
4	PreloadCambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	31.8%
5	Speculation RulesMountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	8.2%
6	LazysizesBerlin, Germany A fast lazy loader library for images, iframes, and scripts/widgets.	4.7%
7	AutoptimizeLokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts.	2.6%
8	Rocket LoaderSan Francisco, California, United States CloudFlare Rocket Loader prioritizes website content by delaying loading of all JavaScript until after rendering.	2.3%
9	PrefetchCambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	2.2%
10	WP Fastest CacheAnkara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score.	2.1%
11	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin.	1%
12	WP-OptimizeNewport, Wales, United Kingdom An all-in-one WordPress plugin that cleans your database, compresses your images, and minifies and caches your website.	1%
13	PageSpeedMountain View, California, United States An open-source web server module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth, available for Apache and Nginx.	0.9%
14	NitroPackSofia, Bulgaria A performance optimization solution for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, and OpenCart that offers caching, code, image, and font optimization, and a built-in CDN.	0.4%
15	PerfmattersScottsdale, Arizona, United States A WordPress plugin designed for performance optimization.	0.4%
16	HummingbirdMelbourne, Australia A WordPress optimization plugin with built-in caching and CDN integration.	0.4%
17	Instant.PagePau, France Uses just-in-time preloading - it preloads a page right before a user clicks on it.	0.4%
18	Vanilla LazyLoad A lightweight and flexible script that speeds up your web application by delaying the loading of your below-the-fold images, videos and iframes until they enter the viewport.	0.3%
19	Lozad.jsNew Delhi, India Highly performant, light and configurable lazy loader for images and iframes in pure JS with no dependencies.	0.3%
20	TurbolinksChicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application.	0.3%
21	TurboChicago, Illinois, United States Gives you the speed of a single page web application without writing any JavaScript.	0.2%
22	Performance LabSan Francisco, California, United States A WordPress plugin that allows you to test new performance features introduced by the official WordPress Performance Team.	0.2%
23	Prerender The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML elements.	0.2%
24	CrittersSan Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest.	0.1%
25	QuicklinkMountain View, California, United States Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching or prerendering in-viewport links during idle time.	0.06%

👉 See Also

🔗 Links
- ⚡Caching

Data is based on the analysis of 2,564,428 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on October 31, 2025.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.