Web Directions Code ’20 session spotlight–Predictive Pre-fetch
Predictive Pre-fetch
Divya Sasidharan, Developer Experience Engineer Netlify
Browser hints like prefetch enable you to get critical resources in advance and save valuable (next) render time. These speculative optimizations integrate the developers’ assumptions about the user’s route. Speculative pre-fetching can be wasteful due to incidences of fetching resources that will never be used.
Leaning on advances in machine learning and analytics data allows us to significantly increase the efficacy of our fetches. Let’s explore techniques that move predictive prefetching from idea to reality.
About Divya Sasidharan
Divya is a web developer who is passionate about open source and the web. She is currently a developer experience engineer at Netlify, and believes that there is a better workflow for building and deploying sites that don’t require a server—ask her about the JAMstack. You will most likely find her in the sunniest spot in the room with a cup of tea in hand.
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