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Asked: 2026-06-02T17:24:29+00:00

Does the html5 link prefetch attribute cause a visit to be counted on the

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Does the html5 link prefetch attribute cause a visit to be counted on the prefetched page in Google Analytics?

<link rel="prefetch" href="http://someurl.com/page.htm" />

This SO question about tracking prefetched AJAX content is similar but the <link> tag is a browser interpretation without any Javascript and it is implemented per browser.

I am developing sites with logical previous and next page content. The application is browsing sequentially through a website, training course or online brochure.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The prefetch only downloads the resources, but does not execute the code, or fire DOM events or so.

    Given Google Analytics depends on running JS, I don’t expect it to be affected.

    Any server side analytics that track requests to the given resources will be affected though.

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