There have been many bugs / requests / questions (see issue 786943 , issue 735014 and issue 850099 for example) saying “link rel=preload doesn’t work” (e.g., I placed a link rel=preload and then made an actual request but both requests went to network). Actually it works and the misbehavior is due to mis-configuration, but figuring out the cause is hard. We could mitigate the pain by printing a console log when a request whose URL is equal to one of preloaded requests but they don’t match for some reason.
Comment 1 by yhirano@chromium.org
, Aug 28