Preload, prefetch and other link tags: what they do and when to use them · PerfPerfPerf
Following on from Harry’s slides, here’s another round-up of thoserel attribute values that begin with pre.
Link tags: prefetch
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More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Resource Hints - Speaker Deck
Slides from Harry’s deep dive into rel values: preconnect, prefetch, and preload.
GitHub - GoogleChromeLabs/quicklink: ⚡️Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching in-viewport links during idle time
This looks like a very handle little performance-enhancing script: it attempts to prefetch some links, but in a responsible way. It won’t do any prefetching on slow connections or where data saving is enabled, and it only prefetches when the browser is idle.
Speed up your site using prefetching by Jon Fox
More details on DNS prefetching, page prefetching and, controversial, page pre-rendering.