⚡ Performance in New Zealand

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.

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our data, performance technologies are used on 61.2% of websites from New Zealand.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is ⏳ Lazy loading with an impressive share of 56%, followed by DNS Prefetch with 52.1% and Preconnect with 44%.

⏳ Lazy loading 56%
DNS Prefetch 52.1%
Preconnect 44%
Preload 37.8%
Speculation Rules 25.4%
Lazysizes 5.3%
Rocket Loader 2.2%
Prefetch 2.1%
WP Fastest Cache 1.9%
Autoptimize 1.4%
WP-Optimize 0.9%
PageSpeed 0.8%
Instant.Page 0.8%
Hummingbird 0.5%
jQuery LazyLoad 0.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

7. Rocket Loader ^(-2)
9. WP Fastest Cache ^(-1)
13. Instant.Page ^(-1)
14. Hummingbird ^(-3)
18. Lozad.js ^(-3)
25. Quicklink ^(-1)

✨ Best Performance Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 performance technologies used on sites from New Zealand, 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.	56%
2	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	52.1%
3	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	44%
4	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	37.8%
5	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	25.4%
6	Lazysizes Berlin, Germany A fast lazy loader library for images, iframes, and scripts/widgets. FreeOpen source	5.3%
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	2.2%
8	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	2.1%
9	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	1.9%
10	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%
11	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	0.9%
12	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.	0.8%
13	Instant.Page Pau, France Uses just-in-time preloading - it preloads a page right before a user clicks on it. FreeOpen source	0.8%
14	Hummingbird Melbourne, Australia A WordPress optimization plugin with built-in caching and CDN integration. FreeOpen source$15+/month	0.5%
15	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.5%
16	Perfmatters Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A WordPress plugin designed for performance optimization. $29.95+/year	0.5%
17	NitroPack Sofia, Bulgaria A performance optimization solution for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, and OpenCart that offers caching, code, image, and font optimization, and a built-in CDN. $17.50+/month	0.5%
18	Lozad.js New Delhi, India Highly performant, light and configurable lazy loader for images and iframes in pure JS with no dependencies. FreeOpen source	0.3%
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	0.3%
20	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.2%
21	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%
22	Prerender The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML elements.	0.2%
23	Critters San Francisco, California, United States A deprecated Webpack plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazily loads the rest. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.09%
24	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	0.06%
25	Quicklink Mountain View, California, United States Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching or prerendering in-viewport links during idle time. FreeOpen source	0.06%

👉 See Also

🌎 Performance in other countries
- Australia
- United Kingdom

Data is based on the analysis of 13,907 websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.