diff --git a/header.php b/header.php
index 4ce77c8a..ca688c30 100644
--- a/header.php
+++ b/header.php
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@
     <meta charset="UTF-8">
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src 'self' https://api.github.com; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'">
     <title>Pi-hole Admin Console</title>
+    <!-- Usually browsers proactively perform domain name resolution on links that the user may choose to follow. We disable DNS prefetching here -->
+    <meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off">
     <!-- Tell the browser to be responsive to screen width -->
     <meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no" name="viewport">
     <link rel="shortcut icon" href="img/favicon.png" type="image/x-icon" />