⚡ Performance in Iraq

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.

Iraq is a Western Asian country with a population of over 45 million people.

According to our data, performance technologies are used on 60.2% of websites from Iraq.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top performance technologies in Iraq in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is ⏳ Lazy loading with an impressive share of 58.7%, followed by DNS Prefetch with 43.7% and Preconnect with 41.6%.

⏳ Lazy loading 58.7%
DNS Prefetch 43.7%
Preconnect 41.6%
Preload 34.6%
Speculation Rules 27.3%
Lazysizes 5.9%
Rocket Loader 5.9%
Prefetch 4.5%
PageSpeed 1.7%
WP-Optimize 1.7%
Autoptimize 1.4%
Turbolinks 1%
Beasties 0.7%
Turbo 0.7%
WP Fastest Cache 0.7%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in Iraq than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

7. Rocket Loader ^(-2)
9. PageSpeed ^(-3)
10. WP-Optimize ^(-1)
12. Turbolinks ^(-7)
13. Beasties ^(-12)
14. Turbo ^(-6)
16. Vanilla LazyLoad ^(-2)
17. Critters ^(-6)

✨ Best Performance Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 20 performance technologies used on sites from Iraq, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	⏳ Lazy loading Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A technique to load non-critical images and iframes marked with the loading="lazy" attribute only when needed.	58.7%
2	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	43.7%
3	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	41.6%
4	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	34.6%
5	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	27.3%
6	Lazysizes Berlin, Germany A fast lazy loader library for images, iframes, and scripts/widgets. FreeOpen source	5.9%
7	Rocket Loader San Francisco, California, United States CloudFlare Rocket Loader prioritizes website content by delaying loading of all JavaScript until after rendering. Free$25+/month	5.9%
8	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	4.5%
9	PageSpeed Mountain View, California, United States An open-source web server module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth, available for Apache and Nginx.	1.7%
10	WP-Optimize Newport, Wales, United Kingdom An all-in-one WordPress plugin that cleans your database, compresses your images, and minifies and caches your website. FreeOpen source$49/year	1.7%
11	Autoptimize Lokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts. FreeOpen source$12.99/month	1.4%
12	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	1%
13	Beasties Edinburgh, United Kingdom A plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazy-loads the rest. FreeOpen source	0.7%
14	Turbo Chicago, Illinois, United States A lightweight JavaScript library that provides the speed and feel of a single-page application without requiring developers to write any JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.7%
15	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	0.7%
16	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. FreeOpen source	0.3%
17	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.3%
18	Instant.Page Pau, France Uses just-in-time preloading - it preloads a page right before a user clicks on it. FreeOpen source	0.3%
19	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.3%
20	Perfmatters Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A WordPress plugin designed for performance optimization. $29.95+/year	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Performance in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 475 websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.