⚡ Performance Optimization in Puerto Rico

Performance optimization technologies allow websites to load faster and respond more efficiently by improving how content and resources are handled and displayed to users.

Puerto Rico is a Caribbean unincorporated territory of the United States with a population of around 3.2 million people.

According to our data, performance optimization technologies are used on 76.4% of websites from Puerto Rico.

Statistics based on 491 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top performance optimization technologies on websites in Puerto Rico in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is ⏳ Lazy loading with an impressive share of 70.7%, followed by DNS Prefetch with 56.8% and Speculation Rules with 52.5%.

⏳ Lazy loading 70.7%
DNS Prefetch 56.8%
Speculation Rules 52.5%
Preconnect 49.3%
Preload 42.4%
Lazysizes 4.3%
Prefetch 3.7%
WP Fastest Cache 2.4%
WP-Optimize 1.6%
Instant.Page 0.8%
Rocket Loader 0.8%
PageSpeed 0.5%
Partytown 0.5%
Beasties 0.3%
Vanilla LazyLoad 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

8. WP Fastest Cache ^(-1)
9. WP-Optimize ^(-2)
10. Instant.Page ^(-4)
12. PageSpeed ^(-1)
13. Partytown ^(-15)
14. Beasties ^(-11)
15. Vanilla LazyLoad ^(-3)
16. Critters ^(-7)
18. Prerender ^(-4)
23. Performance Lab ^(-7)

✨ Best Performance Optimization Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 23 performance optimization technologies used on sites from Puerto Rico, 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.	70.7%
2	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to resolve domain names for external resources before those resources are requested.	56.8%
3	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States A browser API that improves navigation performance by prefetching or prerendering pages that users are likely to visit next.	52.5%
4	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs browsers to establish early connections to external origins before resources are requested.	49.3%
5	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to fetch important resources early before they are requested during page rendering.	42.4%
6	Lazysizes Berlin, Germany A fast lazy loader library for images, iframes, and scripts/widgets. FreeOpen source	4.3%
7	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.	3.7%
8	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	2.4%
9	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	1.6%
10	Instant.Page Pau, France Uses just-in-time preloading - it preloads a page right before a user clicks on it. FreeOpen source	0.8%
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	0.8%
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. FreeOpen source	0.5%
13	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	0.5%
14	Beasties Edinburgh, United Kingdom A plugin that inlines your app's critical CSS and lazy-loads the rest. FreeOpen source	0.3%
15	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%
16	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%
17	jQuery LazyLoad Finland A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.3%
18	Prerender Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A deprecated browser hint that instructed web browsers to preload and render a web page in the background before navigation occurred. Legacy	0.3%
19	Perfmatters Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A commercial WordPress performance plugin that reduces page load times by stripping unused code and disabling unnecessary site elements. $29.95+/year	0.3%
20	Autoptimize Lokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts. FreeOpen source$12.99/month	0.3%
21	Hummingbird Melbourne, Australia A WordPress optimization plugin with built-in caching and CDN integration. FreeOpen source$15+/month	0.3%
22	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%
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	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Performance Optimization in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 491 websites from Puerto Rico.
We currently track the presence of 34 performance optimization technologies across the web.
Of these, 23 were detected on websites from Puerto Rico.
Statistics were last calculated on November 12, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.