Websites using Preconnect resource hints
Preconnect hints open connections to third-party origins early. About 1,086,599 websites in the PageSourceSearch index contain the code that reveals it; the 50 highest-ranked are listed below.
How is Preconnect resource hints detected?
The hint is a link element with rel="preconnect". The discovery keyword is the exact bytes PageSourceSearch looks for in every stored page and script:
rel="preconnect" Search the index for it
A literal is matched byte for byte, case-sensitively. Combine it with another keyword, a domain, a kind or a date filter on the search page to narrow the list. About Preconnect resource hints
Top 50 websites using Preconnect resource hints
Ranked by the domain's position in the crawl's ranked list (Common Crawl harmonic centrality), highest first. view source opens the stored page or script with the match highlighted. Computed 2026-09-29 22:40:13 UTC.
How it appears in the source
From google.com (html):
<!doctype html><html lang="en" dir="ltr"><head><base href="https://accounts.google.com/v3/signin/"><link rel="preconnect" href="//www.gstatic.com"><meta name="referrer" content="origin">
Questions about finding Preconnect resource hints
- How does PageSourceSearch know a website uses Preconnect resource hints?
- By the source itself: The hint is a link element with rel="preconnect". PageSourceSearch stores the raw HTML and first-party JavaScript of each crawled site and matches the keyword byte for byte, so every listed site's stored source contains it.
- Is this a complete list of websites using Preconnect resource hints?
- No. The page lists the 50 highest-ranked sites in the index whose source holds the keyword, out of about 1,086,599 websites that do; the count is the index's estimate at the time the list was computed. Run the keyword as a search to page through all of them, or add a kind or date filter.
- How do I find websites that use Preconnect resource hints together with another technology?
- Search for both keywords at once: several terms separated by spaces must all be found on the same site, or with the Same page toggle in the same page. For example rel="preconnect" with wp-content/plugins/ lists the WordPress sites that use Preconnect resource hints.