as a webmaster, i want my main links to automatically load in my visitors cache so when they click on my main 5-6 links, they will load fast. so basically, when my visitors enter my home page, while they are reading or scrolling through, 5-6 other pages are loading invisably in their cache i believe you can do this in javascript, but i am not sure exactly how and i am also not sure if this is the best way to go about this. i know it can be done as i have seen it done 3-4 years ago and now i want to incorprate that method. the pros to this is obvious. faster load time for your visitors. downside is that it will use more bandwidth because some of your visitors wont normally click on all the links even when the pages are already pre loaded in cache. any help with this will be GREAT! thanks!

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I have seen Image preloaders, but never seen page preloaders like you request information about.
Best I could suggest is to not use Tables since they are slower to load and render on the client's browser. Use div's for layout and External CSS files for styling will be faster loading and rendering. Also, use fewer Images will load faster, too.

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it would be a preload_document or a prefetch. something along those lines, but i don't know exactly the best way. i've spent a couple hours trying to research this and it has me stumped unless i just trial and error, but i don't want to do that and waste more time.

gosh darnit, i know i was amazed when i saw it done first hand 7-8 years ago. i stole the code but then i lost it all somewhere. it was the greatest thing since sliced bread back then and now i forgot what i did and how it's done

i know it's becoming more irrelevant now(aside from the image preloaders) due to high speed modem lines becoming common place but it would still be faster.

any gurus out there with the answer? i luve ya long time! hehehe ok maybe not....but would appreciate some help on this one

 

 

 

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