⚡ Performance in Portugal

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.

Portugal is a Southern European country with a population of around 10.3 million people.

According to our data, performance technologies are used on 57% of websites from Portugal.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is ⏳ Lazy loading with an impressive share of 57.1%, followed by DNS Prefetch with 56% and Preconnect with 39.7%.

⏳ Lazy loading 57.1%
DNS Prefetch 56%
Preconnect 39.7%
Preload 35.2%
Speculation Rules 21.9%
WP Fastest Cache 3.8%
Lazysizes 3.5%
Rocket Loader 2.3%
Autoptimize 2.3%
WP-Optimize 2%
Prefetch 1.9%
PageSpeed 1.2%
jQuery LazyLoad 0.8%
Vanilla LazyLoad 0.4%
Instant.Page 0.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

6. WP Fastest Cache ^(-4)
8. Rocket Loader ^(-1)
10. WP-Optimize ^(-1)
14. Vanilla LazyLoad ^(-4)
16. Hummingbird ^(-1)
17. Turbo ^(-3)
18. Turbolinks ^(-1)
20. Lozad.js ^(-1)
21. Prerender ^(-1)
22. Performance Lab ^(-2)

✨ Best Performance Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 28 performance technologies used on sites from Portugal, 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.	57.1%
2	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	56%
3	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	39.7%
4	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	35.2%
5	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	21.9%
6	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	3.8%
7	Lazysizes Berlin, Germany A fast lazy loader library for images, iframes, and scripts/widgets. FreeOpen source	3.5%
8	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	2.3%
9	Autoptimize Lokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts. FreeOpen source$12.99/month	2.3%
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	2%
11	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1.9%
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.	1.2%
13	jQuery LazyLoad A deprecated jQuery lazy loading plugin. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.8%
14	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	0.4%
15	Instant.Page Pau, France Uses just-in-time preloading - it preloads a page right before a user clicks on it. FreeOpen source	0.4%
16	Hummingbird Melbourne, Australia A WordPress optimization plugin with built-in caching and CDN integration. FreeOpen source$15+/month	0.4%
17	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	0.3%
18	Turbolinks Chicago, Illinois, United States A JavaScript library that allows web apps to behave like a single page application. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.3%
19	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	0.2%
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	Prerender The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML elements.	0.2%
22	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	0.2%
23	Perfmatters Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A WordPress plugin designed for performance optimization. $29.95+/year	0.2%
24	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%
25	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	0.08%

👉 See Also

🌎 Performance in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 14,630 websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.