Learn Performance - Prefetch and Prerender

Prerender

To confirm that the page was preloaded you can run the following snippet in the Console:

performance?.getEntriesByType?.('navigation')[0]?.activationStart > 0

Alternatively, you can check the This Page tab of the Application panel.

Chrome DevTools Application panel showing the Preloading status for this page.

In the Application panel above, the Preloading status indicates that the page was successfully prerendered.