Cache preloading

1. A method of preloading a cache, comprising:

receiving, by an edge server, a requested web content, wherein:

the web content includes a replacement code for requesting one of a plurality of resources,

the replacement code replaces an HTML element requesting a same one of the plurality of resources, and

at least a portion of the requested web content is obtained from a content provider via a network;

processing, by an edge server, the received web content to convert a static resource request of the received web content to a dynamic resource request, wherein the dynamic resource request is intercepted and optimized by an injected client to add the replacement code in the requested web content;

determining, by the edge server, a priority order associated with a plurality of resources of the requested web content, wherein the priority order is determined based at least in part on: the optimized dynamic resource request, a size of each of the plurality of resources, and a maximum number of concurrent connections to the edge server allowed by an application; and

preloading, by the edge server, the cache of the application with a plurality of resources referenced by the requested web content in a loading order specified by the determined priority order.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the application is a web browser application.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the requested web content is received from a content provider referenced by a URL utilized to request the requested web content.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the requested web content is received from an intermediary server that obtained at least a portion of the requested web content using a URL of the requested web content.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the loading order specifies an order in which the plurality of resources should be requested.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the priority order includes receiving the priority order from a server that has predetermined the priority order for the requested web content.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the priority order was determined based at least in part on an order the a plurality of resources are requested in a code of the web content.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the priority order was determined based at least in part on an order the a plurality of resources are added to a Document Object Model of the web content.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the priority order was determined based at least in part on information about the a plurality of resources.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the priority order was determined based at least in part on relative amounts of visual space utilized by the plurality of resources.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the priority order was determined based at least in part on a utilized frequency of each of the a plurality of resources.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the utilized frequency of a resource is determined based at least on part on when the resource is added to a document object model (DOM) associated with the requested web content.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the priority order was determined based at least in part by profiling the plurality of resources during a previous rendering of the web content.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the loading order was determined based at least in part on a parameter of the application.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the loading order was determined based at least in part on an identification of the application.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the requested web content includes code for a client inserted after the web content was received from a content provider, and the client preloads the cache of the application.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the client intercepts a request for one of the plurality of resources and provides the requested one resource from the cache.

18. The method of claim 1 , wherein the loading order was determined based at least in part on a determined order in which to obtain the plurality of resources given the maximum number of concurrent connections allowed by the application, wherein a time to load the plurality of resources in the determined order is reduced compared with loading in an order different from the determined order.

19. A system for preloading a cache, comprising:

a communication interface configured to receive a requested web content from an edge server, wherein:

the web content includes a replacement code for requesting one of a plurality of resources,

the replacement code replaces an HTML element requesting a same one of the plurality of resources, and

at least a portion of the requested web content is obtained from a content provider via a network; and

a processor in the edge server, wherein the processor is coupled with the communication interface and configured to:

process the received web content to convert a static resource request of the received web content to a dynamic resource request, wherein the dynamic resource request is intercepted and optimized by an injected client to add the replacement code in the requested web content;

determine a priority order associated with a plurality of resources of the requested web content, wherein the priority order is determined based at least in part on: the optimized dynamic resource request, a size of each of the plurality of resources, and a maximum number of concurrent connections to a server allowed by an application; and

preload the cache of an application with a plurality of resources referenced by the requested web content in a loading order specified by the determined priority order.

20. A computer program product for preloading a cache, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving a requested web content from an edge server, wherein:

the web content includes a replacement code for requesting one of a plurality of resources,

the replacement code replaces an HTML element requesting a same one of the plurality of resources, and

at least a portion of the requested web content is obtained from a content provider via a network;

processing, by the edge server, the received web content to convert a static resource request of the received web content to a dynamic resource request, wherein the dynamic resource request is intercepted and optimized by an injected client to add the replacement code in the requested web content;

determining, by the edge server, a priority order associated with a plurality of resources of the requested web content, wherein the priority order is determined based at least in part on: the optimized dynamic resource request, a size of each of the plurality of resources, and a maximum number of concurrent connections to a server allowed by an application; and

preloading, by the edge server, the cache of an application with a plurality of resources referenced by the requested web content in a loading order specified by the determined priority order.