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Sounds too good to be true, but also brilliant. Curious what others think. What are the downsides?
by akras14 8y ago
Sounds too good to be true, but also brilliant. Curious what others think. What are the downsides?
- dieulot 8y agoThanks. The only downside is that you can expect twice the number of requests to your pages (only the pages themselves, not their assets).
- lallysingh 8y agoAnd you're using a lot more of the users'bandwidth
- dieulot 8y agoYou’re only preloading HTML, so it’s negligible compared to what trackers and ads do for instance.
- jakelazaroff 8y agoIncreased load on your web server, but other than that zero! (You might even be able to mitigate the load with caching). It progressively enhances existing links if JavaScript is enabled. There are other libraries that do similar things, such as InstantClick: http://instantclick.io/ http://instantclick.io/
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- ddebernardy 8y agoAssuming you use the script as suggested, letting a 3rd party site know your stats (and users) sounds like a non-trivial downside. I'd surmise the author is benevolent, but if this were to be turned into a business, some kind of data play seems like the trivial next step.
- shaklee3 8y agoAs other comments have pointed out, you can run the js locally from your site instead.