Whiteboard Video: Pre-Fetching – Anticipating The Users Next Click

In this video we will cover the basics and more advanced aspects of pre-fetching pages or resources for near instantaneous load times.

We will cover the three main types of pre-fetching:

  • Next Page
  • Post Load
  • Pre Load

As well as the most common issues and challenges associated with this performance optimization.


As mentioned in the video Stoyan Stefanov wrote a great post with tactical information on pre-fetching. Here is his post: http://www.phpied.com/preload-cssjavascript-without-execution/

Posted on August 30th, 2011
  • Tux

    Audio clarity is poor. echo, hall effect etc