jargon

Frontend & browser·Loading, assets and the critical path

you fetched the next page's code at low priority while the user was still reading this one.

Prefetch

Also calledrel=prefetch

A hint that a resource will probably be needed for a future navigation, fetched at the lowest priority when the browser is idle. It is speculative by design, which makes it right for likely next steps and wrong for anything on the current page. Prefetching aggressively costs the user bandwidth and battery for pages they may never visit, which matters more on mobile than the timing charts suggest.

Commonly confused with