Speculative Navigation
Experimental
Google's Speculation Navigation Rules API
"Prefetching or even prerendering certain URL's for a (almost) instant page loading experience."
Imporant!
Make sure you (temporarily) turn off any content blocking tools like uBlock Origin or AdBlocker like web browser extensions. Othwerise the prefetching will not work.
Web browser support?
Is the Speculation Rules API supported in your web browser?
As of this writing (November, 2024) the speculative navigation only works in the following web browser(s):
Works in (desktop & mobile):
- Chrome
- Edge
- Opera
- Chrome Android
- Opera Android
- Samsung Internet (browser)
- WebView Android
Doesn't work in (desktop & mobile):
- Firefox
- Firefox Android
- Safari (macOS, iPadOS, iOS & iOS WebView)
- Brave
Inspirational video
My simplified demo is inspired by this YouTube video.
3rd party demo
https://speculative-rules.glitch.me/