Today I learned about the difference betweeen "preconnect" and "dns-prefetch": https://web.dev/articles/preconnect-and-dns-prefetch
I have thought that they were the same...
I have thought that they were the same...
For example, injecting ads and tracking into web pages via connections to third party servers. This is not a practice that increases page speed
If I am not mistaken, "web.dev" is operated by an ad services company
As a web user, not a "web developer", I use clients that do not "support" these "features". For me, YMMV, this makes information retrieval from the www much faster and more resource-efficient than if I tried to use clients that do, such as the so-called "modern" browser
There are also privacy and security implications associated with choice of client, however these are not the primary reason I choose clients other than the so-called "modern" browser