This use case is based on Google Chrome's prerender capabilities introduced with Chrome 13. The code to include on a page is the same regardless of whether you use prerender or not, so this howto will not cover that. However, to enable prerendering of a particular page, you include that page's URL as a link element in the current document. For example, we include this code in the HEAD of the current page:
<link rel="prerender" href="howto-10-page%232.html">
This tells Chrome to prefetch howto-10-page#2.html and all its assets, and to
start rendering it in the background, invisible to the user. When the user eventually clicks
on a link to that document, it should show up immediately.
As performance concious engineers, however, we'd like to know how long it all took. In particular, the numbers we care about are:
Let's hope you've spent enough time reading this page to allow page#2's rendering to complete.
Go to Page #2 now to see the results of the page load test.
The latest code and docs is available on github.com/lognormal/boomerang