Introducing Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster
Sep 25, 2024Alex Krivit, Suleman Ahmad, William Woodhead

Summary
Introduces Speed Brain, a new feature that leverages the Speculation Rules API to prefetch and prerender content for likely next navigations. This aims to reduce page load latency by downloading and rendering pages before the user clicks on them, leading to near-instantaneous loads. Initial testing shows up to a 75% reduction in Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) with an aggressive loading model. Speed Brain will offer more aggressive speculation models in the future, eventually learning to eliminate latency for static websites without configuration.