Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster
Cloudflare's Speed Brain enhances web page loading speeds by up to 45% using the Speculation Rules API for prefetching content. It's free for all plans, with manual activation for paid users.
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Cloudflare has introduced Speed Brain, a new feature designed to enhance web page loading speeds by up to 45%. This innovation leverages the Speculation Rules API to anticipate user navigation and prefetch content before users click on links. By downloading web pages to the browser cache in advance, Speed Brain aims to minimize latency and provide a near-instant loading experience. The initial implementation focuses on prefetching static content when a user initiates a touch or click event, with plans for more aggressive models, including prerendering, in the future. Testing has shown a significant reduction in Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) times, indicating faster loading of visible elements. Speed Brain is available at no cost for all plan types, with automatic activation for free domains. Users of Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans must enable it manually. Additionally, enabling Real User Measurements (RUM) is recommended to optimize prefetching rules based on actual user behavior. This feature represents a significant advancement in web performance, addressing previous limitations of prefetching techniques by allowing for more dynamic and personalized optimizations based on user interactions.
- Speed Brain can reduce web page loading times by up to 45%.
- It uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch content based on predicted user navigation.
- The feature is available for free and automatically enabled for free domains.
- Users of paid plans need to manually activate Speed Brain.
- Enabling Real User Measurements can enhance prefetching effectiveness.
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