Chapter 6: Lightning Fast Websites with Prefetching
by Maria Antonietta Perna
In this article, I'll discuss prefetching, what it is, and how developers can use it to wow visitors with high-performance websites.
What Is Prefetching?
Although optimizing a website for initial page load is great, for the highly interactive websites users expect today, this might not be enough.
What if browsers knew which link users were about to click, or which page they were about to visit next, so that content could automagically appear on their screen at the speed of light?
Well, browsers can do that now. In fact, some major browsers are smart enough to make these kinds of guesses based on visitors' browsing patterns, document markup and structure, the user's ...
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