Tachyon
Tachyon is a deprecated script that improves the user experience of your website by prerendering pages before a user navigates to them.
According to our data, Tachyon ranks 34th among the performance optimization technologies we track.
It has 0.004% of the performance optimization market share and is detected on 0.002% of all websites.
💸 Pricing
Tachyon is available for free.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Performance Optimization
- Rank: 34
- Market share: 0.004%
- JavaScript Libraries
- Rank: 287
- Market share: 0.003%
- Legacy
- Rank: 90
- Market share: 0.01%
⚡ Sites Using Tachyon
We have data on 69 websites that use Tachyon performance optimization technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Tachyon is snopes.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #2,621 | English | ||
| 2 | #3,576 | United States | English | |
| 3 | #6,655 | Philippines | American English | |
| 4 | #8,321 | American English | ||
| 5 | #14,992 | Germany | English | |
| 6 | #18,679 | United Kingdom | American English | |
| 7 | #19,422 | American English | ||
| 8 | #21,115 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 9 | #23,771 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 10 | #25,159 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnian | |
| 11 | #29,444 | Switzerland | American English | |
| 12 | #37,897 | American English | ||
| 13 | #53,827 | American English | ||
| 14 | #55,346 | Japan | American English | |
| 15 | #56,938 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 16 | #59,561 | United Arab Emirates | Arabic | |
| 17 | #68,522 | American English | ||
| 18 | #79,571 | United States | American English | |
| 19 | #93,930 | United States | English | |
| 20 | #107,593 | Singapore | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Tachyon:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Tachyon are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- United States 20.8%
- United Kingdom 14.6%
- Australia 8.3%
- Japan 8.3%
- Belgium 6.3%
- Singapore 6.3%
- Germany 4.2%
- Spain 4.2%
- Sweden 4.2%
- Other 22.8%
Most Tachyon users speak English, Dutch, or Arabic.
- English 76.8%
- Dutch 4.3%
- Arabic 4.3%
- German 2.9%
- Spanish 2.9%
- Japanese 2.9%
- Chinese 1.4%
- Hungarian 1.4%
- Malay 1.4%
- Other 1.7%
Tachyon performance optimization technology is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 69.6%
- .org 4.3%
- .be 4.3%
- .com.au 4.3%
- .io 2.9%
- .com.sg 2.9%
- .de 1.4%
- .jp 1.4%
- .ru 1.4%
- Other 7.5%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Tachyon include business, blogs and wiki, and general news.
- Business 35.9%
- Blogs/Wiki 7.7%
- General News 7.7%
- Marketing/Merchandising 5.1%
- Online Shopping 5.1%
- Education/Reference 5.1%
- Entertainment 5.1%
- Sports 5.1%
- Software/Hardware 5.1%
- Other 18.1%
🔢 Tachyon Versions
The most common version of Tachyon is 2.0, used by 47.1% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 41.2% of sites use Tachyon 1.0, and 11.8% use Tachyon 1.1.
- 2.0 47.1%
- 1.0 41.2%
- 1.1 11.8%
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Speculation Rules💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use Tachyon for free?
Yes, it is a free performance optimization technology.
Which country uses Tachyon the most?
The majority of Tachyon users are from the United States.
Who uses Tachyon?
According to our data, Tachyon is used on at least 69 sites, including such established ones as snopes.com,
nerdwallet.com, and
rappler.com.
Do academic institutions use Tachyon?
Yes. The most prominent of these is u-tokai.ac.jp.
What are the alternatives to Tachyon?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Tachyon may include 
Instant.Page, Quicklink, and
DNS Prefetch.
🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.