Google Search Sees Speed Gains By About 60 Milliseconds – Search Engine Roundtable
Google announced it is testing new pre-fetching methods that increase the speed (Largest Contentful Paint – LCP) of the first two results by 67 milliseconds and for the results after those by about by 9.5 milliseconds.
Barry Pollard and Oleksiy Busaryev from Google wrote on the Google Chrome Developer blog, “Google Search has been making use of the Speculation Rules API to improve navigation speed from the search results page to the result links and they’ve been using a few features of the API that may be of interest to other site owners.”
Google is prefetching the first two results to help with these gains by using privacy-preserving prefetches, the private prefetch proxy in Chrome. And also, by using the referrer_policy setting to ensure no details encoded in the search page’s URL are sent to the site in the referer HTTP header. Google added that a third protection automatically happens if the user has cookies for the site. In this case, they may receive different results based…
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