web01.fireside.fm Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:22:30 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) PodRocket - Episodes Tagged with “Speculation Rules” https://podrocket.logrocket.com/tags/speculation%20rules Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0500 PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join our hosts as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day. en-us episodic A web development podcast from LogRocket LogRocket PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join our hosts as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day. no front-end, web development, front-end development, frontend development, tech, LogRocket elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com Speeding up the web with the speculation rules API | Barry Pollard http://podrocket.logrocket.com/barry-pollard 243e07b1-a1b9-4f6d-b2d4-3c46fcda1b27 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0500 LogRocket full LogRocket Barry Pollard from the Chrome devrel team joins PodRocket to discuss the speculation rules API, a new browser feature designed to improve web performance through prefetch and pre-render techniques. Barry breaks down the history of speculative loading, contrasts SPA vs MPA behavior, and explains the nuances of hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, and the powerful new pre-render until script mode. Learn how Shopify and WordPress are adopting the API, what telemetry from Chrome Status reveals, and what developers need to know about potential pitfalls, caching behavior, and how the API is becoming a standard for static sites and e-commerce performance. 44:33 no Barry Pollard from the Chrome devrel team joins PodRocket to discuss the speculation rules API, a new browser feature designed to improve web performance through prefetch and pre-render techniques. Barry breaks down the history of speculative loading, contrasts SPA vs MPA behavior, and explains the nuances of hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, and the powerful new pre-render until script mode. Learn how Shopify and WordPress are adopting the API, what telemetry from Chrome Status reveals, and what developers need to know about potential pitfalls, caching behavior, and how the API is becoming a standard for static sites and e-commerce performance. Links Website: https://www.tunetheweb.com X: https://x.com/tunetheweb LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tunetheweb Github: https://github.com/tunetheweb Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tunetheweb.com Resources Perfnow: https://perfnow.nl/speakers.html#barry We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey (https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu)! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com (mailto:elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com), or tweet at us at PodRocketPod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod). Check out our newsletter (https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/)! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/get-podrocket-stickers), and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Chapters speculation rules API, speculation rules Chrome, web performance optimization, prefetch vs pre-render, pre-render until script, Shopify web performance, WordPress prefetch API, SPA vs MPA, hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, eager prefetch, Chrome deferral team, Barry Pollard Chrome, speculative loading API, improving LCP with pre-render, fetch heuristics Chrome, Chrome speculation rules telemetry, Shopify speculation rules case study, WordPress core speculation rules, prefetch JavaScript frameworks, API browser adoption Chrome, API developer pitfalls, static site pre-rendering Barry Pollard from the Chrome devrel team joins PodRocket to discuss the speculation rules API, a new browser feature designed to improve web performance through prefetch and pre-render techniques. Barry breaks down the history of speculative loading, contrasts SPA vs MPA behavior, and explains the nuances of hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, and the powerful new pre-render until script mode. Learn how Shopify and WordPress are adopting the API, what telemetry from Chrome Status reveals, and what developers need to know about potential pitfalls, caching behavior, and how the API is becoming a standard for static sites and e-commerce performance.

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Links

Website: https://www.tunetheweb.com
X: https://x.com/tunetheweb
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tunetheweb
Github: https://github.com/tunetheweb
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tunetheweb.com

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