Chrome Version: 64.0.3282.186
OS: All
The browser's resource loading process is a complex one. Browsers discover needed resources and download them according to their heuristic priority. Browsers may also use this heuristic resource priority to delay sending certain requests in order to avoid bandwidth contention of these resources with more critical ones.
Currently web developers have very little control over the heuristic importance of loaded resources, other than speeding up their discovery using `<link rel=preload>`. Browsers make many assumptions on the importance of resources based on the resource's type (AKA its request destination), and based on its location in the containing document.
Priority Hints describe a browser API to enable developers signal the priorities of the resources they need to download.
https://wicg.github.io/priority-hints/
Comment 1 by addyo@chromium.org
, Mar 13 2018