This is exactly how https://instant.page/ makes webpages load so fast. It cheat your brain by loading the new page once press (or even hover). - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

Https://instant.page/ is a take on this idea for web. On mouse down or hover for an element, start a prefetch. This technique hides about 80 ms of latency when triggered on mousedown and up to a few hundred milliseconds for hover. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

As for the prefetching I know what it is and even use https://instant.page/ on our site for it, I'm talking about the asynchronous loading that happens on the site. It could be that both things are happening. But it's the asynchronous part I don't get. Source: over 1 year ago

Here's how to make a SPA that isn't shit. https://instant.page/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I'm not sure its FUD, your main page takes 63.5KB + 38.7KB for the gatsby reactified framework? + an extra 39.8KB in some js bundle and another 51.7KB in some other js bundle. Also you end up thrashing 5MB of browser storage when I hovered a link check out Application -> Storage in Chrome. Maybe I'm crazy but your page should not need that much, your site is making 20 requests to resources (thankfully you have... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

Tool for documenting findings, https://effectiveexperiments.com/. Source: over 1 year ago