Preloading — Open Web Pages Instantly in Chrome (2026)

Preloading is hover-triggered: when you hover a link, it starts loading that destination in the background before you click. When you do click, the page is often partway to loaded. Both levels of preloading are free.

How It Works

When you hover a link, SuperchargePerformance starts loading its destination in the background. When you navigate to a preloaded URL, the content is often already cached, so the page loads sooner rather than starting a cold network request. Same site requests a prerender of the hovered page, while All requests a prefetch.

Preloading is a bandwidth trade-off: you use some data fetching pages you may not visit in exchange for faster navigation when you do visit them. On fast, unlimited connections this trade-off is almost always worth it. At most three pages preload at the same time, and the preloader never starts for known ad or tracker domains. It also skips download links, nofollow links, links inside forms, and action or admin-style URLs.

Settings

The default is All. This provides the broadest navigation speedup across the web. Switch to Same site if you prefer to avoid cross-site prefetch requests, or disable Preloading entirely if you are on a metered connection.

When to Use This

• You browse multi-page content (articles, documentation, product listings) and click through pages sequentially
• Navigation between pages feels sluggish even though your connection is fast
• You want the most noticeable speed improvement without changing how pages look
• You are on an unlimited broadband connection where the extra bandwidth cost is negligible

Preloading pairs well with Resource Prioritization: Resource Prioritization makes the current page load faster, while Preloading makes the next page load faster.

Privacy

Preloading makes network requests to pages linked from your current page — this is inherent to how prefetching works. Same site limits these requests to the same domain, eliminating cross-site network exposure. All includes safeguards to avoid patterns that could be used for tracking. No browsing history, click patterns, or page content is sent to SuperchargePerformance or any third party.