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: Does browser prefetching have an impact on stats from Google Analytics? Some pages can be prefetched by the browser (see this or that). If a user uses a browser that prefetches pages, will

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Some pages can be prefetched by the browser (see this or that). If a user uses a browser that prefetches pages, will this be counted by Google Analytics? If there are 5 pages to be prefetched, will Google Analytics count that as 5 visits?

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@Sarah324

From this SO answer:


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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