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 0.003% 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: 0.003%
- JavaScript Libraries
- Rank: 296
- Market share: 0.002%
- Legacy
- Rank: 99
- Market share: 0.007%
⚡ 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 | #1,973 | English | ||
| 2 | #6,873 | English | ||
| 3 | #7,100 | American English | ||
| 4 | #8,211 | Philippines | American English | |
| 5 | #13,932 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 6 | #14,042 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 7 | #14,427 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 8 | #19,318 | American English | ||
| 9 | #20,210 | Germany | English | |
| 10 | #24,304 | Switzerland | American English | |
| 11 | #33,152 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bosnian | |
| 12 | #37,663 | American English | ||
| 13 | #50,455 | American English | ||
| 14 | #62,399 | American English | ||
| 15 | #88,566 | United States | American English | |
| 16 | #103,774 | Sweden | American English | |
| 17 | #111,478 | American English | ||
| 18 | #121,180 | United Kingdom | American English | |
| 19 | #152,120 | United States | English | |
| 20 | #157,367 | United Kingdom | 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 Japan.
- United States 21.3%
- United Kingdom 17%
- Japan 10.6%
- Singapore 6.4%
- Australia 4.3%
- China 4.3%
- Spain 4.3%
- Switzerland 4.3%
- United Arab Emirates 4.3%
- Other 23.2%
Most Tachyon users speak English, Japanese, or Arabic.
- English 81.2%
- Japanese 4.3%
- Arabic 4.3%
- Spanish 2.9%
- Chinese 2.9%
- Hungarian 1.4%
- Malay 1.4%
- Bosnian 1.4%
- Other 0.2%
Tachyon performance optimization technology is especially popular on .com, .io, and .org top-level domains.
- .com 68.1%
- .io 7.2%
- .org 5.8%
- .jp 2.9%
- .com.au 2.9%
- .com.sg 2.9%
- .energy 1.4%
- .ru 1.4%
- .ac.jp 1.4%
- Other 6%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Tachyon include business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki.
- Business 34.2%
- Online Shopping 7.9%
- Blogs/Wiki 7.9%
- General News 7.9%
- Marketing/Merchandising 5.3%
- Education/Reference 5.3%
- Entertainment 5.3%
- Sports 5.3%
- Software/Hardware 5.3%
- Other 15.6%
🔢 Tachyon Versions
The most common version of Tachyon is 2.0, used by 63.6% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 18.2% of sites use Tachyon 1.0, and 18.2% use Tachyon 1.1.
- 2.0 63.6%
- 1.0 18.2%
- 1.1 18.2%
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💬 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,
sc.com, and
recipetineats.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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.