Blog Performance Experiments with Browser Preconnects Utkarsh Goel is an architect who likes to build unilateral technologies to improve the current state of web performance. He works at Akamai's Foundry, the cutting-edge arm of Akamai's Web Performance business unit that believes in the “fail fast, succeed faster” philosophy and focuses on exploring new technology opportunities to improve all forms of Internet performance. He can be reached at ugoel@akamai.com . Preconnect hint allows browsers to discover critical hostnames and proactively establish a connection to them. Executive summary Modern web browsers employ a suite of performance optimization techniques to improve user experiences. Preconnect hint is one such optimization and allows browsers to discover critical hostnames and proactively establish a connection to them for serving requests in the near future.…