Preloading in Google Chrome is a performance feature that fetches pages in advance before you visit them. This helps make your browsing experience faster because when you finally decide to visit that website, some of the data is already there, waiting for you.
It’s like the website is already partially loaded by the time you visit it, so you don’t have to wait as long for everything to show up on your screen.
By default, the Standard preloading option is enabled in Chrome. You can change the preloading options if needed. Here is how:
Open Chrome and access the Performance settings:
chrome://settings/performance
Scroll down to the Speed section.
There are two forms of preloading available:
- Standard (Default)
- Extended
With the Standard preloading option, only the pages that you have visited previously will be preloaded.
With the Extended preloading option, Google will use predictions to preload pages that you are likely to visit in advance and be preloaded through Google servers.
While this will make browsing and searching faster than that with Standard preloading, Google will know which sites get preloaded.
Other than that, you can also completely turn off preloading by toggling the Preload pages option.
So, there is a fine balance between speed and privacy. Choose best what suits you in Chrome when browsing.
Happy surfing.