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Full Page Prerendering in Chrome

Steve Souders takeaway #1 after trying to figure out unexpected caching behavior in Chrome ( emphasis is mine ):

Remember that Chrome may do DNS prefetch, TCP pre-connect, and even prerender the entire page based on the confidences in chrome://predictors.

Apparently this isn’t new information, it was mentioned by Ilya Grigorik in High Performance Networking in Google Chrome. But if Steve Souders didn’t know about it already then I expect that it isn’t widely known.

Looking over the chrome://predictors/ results in my browser it is about what I’d expect. One thing that would be helpful is the ability to sort by individual columns. I’m most interested in which pages Chrome is mostly likely to attempt to prerender.