Today we’ll dive into insights from Chrome’s networking stack to provide clarity on how web loading primitives (like <link rel=“preload”> & <link rel=“prefetch”>) work behind the scenes so you can be more effective with them. As covered well in other articles, preload is a declarative fetch, allowing you to force the browser to make a request for a resource without blocking the document’s onload e
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