⚡ Performance in Iran

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.

Iran is a Western Asian country with a population of over 89 million people.

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

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is ⏳ Lazy loading with a substantial share of 67.6%, followed by DNS Prefetch with 43% and Preload with 35.6%.

⏳ Lazy loading 67.6%
DNS Prefetch 43%
Preload 35.6%
Speculation Rules 27.3%
Preconnect 24.6%
Prefetch 3%
Lazysizes 2.5%
Autoptimize 2.4%
Perfmatters 1.8%
WP Fastest Cache 1.5%
Rocket Loader 1.4%
jQuery LazyLoad 0.8%
WP-Optimize 0.7%
Instant.Page 0.4%
WebMarkupMin 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Preload ^(-1)
4. Speculation Rules ^(-1)
6. Prefetch ^(-2)
9. Perfmatters ^(-6)
12. jQuery LazyLoad ^(-1)
15. WebMarkupMin ^(-13)
17. Turbolinks ^(-2)
18. Turbo ^(-2)
20. Lozad.js ^(-1)
21. Partytown ^(-6)

✨ Best Performance Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 28 performance technologies used on sites from Iran, 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.	67.6%
2	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	43%
3	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	35.6%
4	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	27.3%
5	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	24.6%
6	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	3%
7	Lazysizes Berlin, Germany A fast lazy loader library for images, iframes, and scripts/widgets. FreeOpen source	2.5%
8	Autoptimize Lokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts. FreeOpen source$12.99/month	2.4%
9	Perfmatters Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A WordPress plugin designed for performance optimization. $29.95+/year	1.8%
10	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	1.5%
11	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	1.4%
12	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
13	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	0.7%
14	Instant.Page Pau, France Uses just-in-time preloading - it preloads a page right before a user clicks on it. FreeOpen source	0.4%
15	WebMarkupMin Moscow, Russia A .NET library, also available as ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core extensions, that improves web application performance by reducing the size of HTML, XML, JS, and CSS code. FreeOpen source	0.3%
16	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.	0.3%
17	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.2%
18	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	0.2%
19	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	0.2%
20	Lozad.js New Delhi, India Highly performant, light and configurable lazy loader for images and iframes in pure JS with no dependencies. FreeOpen source	0.2%
21	Partytown San Francisco, California, United States A lazy-loaded library to help relocate resource intensive scripts into a web worker, and off of the main thread. FreeOpen source	0.1%
22	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.1%
23	Performance Lab San Francisco, California, United States A WordPress plugin that allows you to test new performance features introduced by the official WordPress Performance Team. FreeOpen source	0.09%
24	Beasties Edinburgh, United Kingdom A plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazy-loads the rest. FreeOpen source	0.08%
25	Hummingbird Melbourne, Australia A WordPress optimization plugin with built-in caching and CDN integration. FreeOpen source$15+/month	0.05%

Data is based on the analysis of 21,364 websites from Iran.
Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.