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Make your site faster with this one technique

Aaron Francis — Aug 1, 2025 — tutorial

Why watch

This tutorial demonstrates how to make Inertia and Vue applications feel instant by prefetching not just data but also heavy above-the-fold images on link hover. Aaron Francis shows implementing a low-quality placeholder strategy combined with prefetching full-resolution images to dramatically improve perceived page load speed. Developers working with Inertia.js and Vue will learn server-side prop parsing, client-side fetch triggering, and a Laravel-style macro for clean prefetch implementation.