Site acceleration with customer prefetching enabled through customer-specific configurations

A computer program product in a non-transitory computer readable medium adapted to be executed in a data processing system having a hardware element, comprising:

• program code to receive configuration data, the configuration data associated with a content provider domain of one of a set of content providers;
• program code operative as a given object associated with the content provider domain is being served to a requesting client, to scan a response body of the given object to identify one or more content objects identified in the response body that may be candidates for prefetching;
• program code operative for at least one content object identified in the response body that may be a candidate for prefetching, to create a request for the content object;
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• program code operative as the given object associated with the content provider domain is being served, to execute the request to attempt to fetch the content object if a prefetching status for the content provider domain has been enabled and a given prefetch limit has not been exceeded, the prefetching status and the given prefetch limit being identified by the configuration data.

A computer program product in a non-transitory computer readable medium adapted to be executed in a data processing system having a hardware element, comprising:

• program code to receive configuration data, the configuration data associated with a content provider domain of one of a set of participating content providers;
• program code operative for each of first and second participating content providers, where the first participating content provider is distinct from the second participating content provider, to receive a customer-specific, domain-specific configuration file that includes one or more prefetching directives, and at least one other content delivery directive;
• program code operative as a given object associated with a content provider domain is being served to a requesting client, to scan a response body of the given object to identify one or more content objects identified in the response body that may be candidates for prefetching;
• program code operative for at least one content object identified in the response body that may be a candidate for prefetching, to create a request for the content object;
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• program code operative as the given object associated with the content provider domain is being served, to execute the request to attempt to fetch the content object if a prefetching status for the content provider domain has been enabled as indicated by the prefetching directive in the configuration file;
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• program code operative to fetch a second content object associated with the content provider domain as indicated by the other content delivery directive in the configuration file.