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Chrome has been prefetching & prerendering links since 2013. IE11 has also been prefetching & prerendering as well since 2013 ( https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com
by kllrnohj 9y ago
Chrome has been prefetching & prerendering links since 2013. IE11 has also been prefetching & prerendering as well since 2013 ( https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2013/12/04/getting-to-the-content-you-want-faster-in-ie11/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2013/12/04/getting-to-th... )
So it's not only possible to do, they've literally been doing it for 5 years now.
Firefox doesn't appear to do prerendering, but it will happily prefetch as well and has since Firefox 23.
AMP's cap on file sizes and other limitations helps these relatively ancient prefetching & prerendering work better, but you don't need AMP to get preloading. Not at all.
- Sylos 9y ago> Firefox doesn't appear to do prerendering, but it will happily prefetch as well and has since Firefox 23. Don't know, if it's necessarily "happily" in the case of Firefox. It's hardly optional, if you want to compete at all in terms of speed with browsers that are doing the full prerendering. And they are aware of the implications, which is why they're not doing it fully.
- topbarcolor 9y agoProvided the server Hosting the site to be prefetched uses HTTP headers correctly, you can even do it via ajax from any website, regardless of how the browser is configured or capable: ust load the page/image/whatever and throw away the result, now it's in cache.