As seen on histograms such as Prerender.omnibox_PrefetchTTFCP.Warm.Cacheable.Visible.
Prerender and NoStatePrefetch can be slower than a normal load at the tail.
i.e. the 95th percentile for first contentful paint is slower with prerender or prefetch than a normal load.
This only happens on desktop, and thus we suspect that the cause is the same as https://crbug.com/652746 which was fixed only on Android.
Comment 1 by droger@chromium.org
, Mar 28 2017