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No State Prefetch

Category
Network / Connectivity
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 63)
Intent stage
None

Summary

A mechanism for speculative prefetching of webpages and their subresources that are on a critical path of page loading *without* executing any JavaScript or creating a complex state of the web platform. This system is not purely “no state” because HTTP cache allows to create cookies and other state related to validating cache entries. It is important to note that the “NoState Prefetch” is not an API. Server side detection: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=796855

Standards & signals

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16VCYGGWau483IMSxODpg5faZny1FJ6vNK2v-BuM5EhU/edit

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