<link rel="prefetch">
The rel="prefetch" attribute for the <link> HTML element is a hint to the browser that the user is likely to navigate to a resource, so the browser should preemptively fetch and cache the resource.
Status
Limited availability
MDN documentation
Specifications
- HTML (#link-type-prefetch), from HTML Workstream (WHATWG).
Browser support (view on caniuse.com)
- Chrome 8 Released on 2010-12-02
- Chrome Android 18 Released on 2012-06-27
- Edge 12 Released on 2015-07-29
- Firefox 2 Released on 2006-10-24
- Firefox for Android 4 Released on 2011-03-29
- Safari ❌
- Safari on iOS ❌
Baseline availability blocked since July 2015 by Safari (127 months)
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