Content Pre-Render and Pre-Fetch Techniques

A system comprising:

• one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware, the one or more modules configured to perform operations comprising:
• computing a confidence score indicating a relative likelihood of subsequent navigation to content associated with a network address based at least in part on monitored navigation performed by a computing device to one or more network addresses;
• responsive to a determination that the confidence score meets a pre-render threshold for the subsequent navigation, causing the content associated with the network address to be pre-fetched and pre-rendered by the computing device;
• and
• responsive to a determination that the confidence score meets a pre-fetch threshold for the subsequent navigation but does not meet the pre-render threshold for the subsequent navigation, causing the content associated with the network address to be pre-fetched but not pre-rendered by the computing device.

A system comprising:

• one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware, the one or more modules configured to perform operations comprising:
• generating navigation data based on monitored navigation performed by a plurality of different computing devices to access a plurality of different network addresses;
• and
• exposing the navigation data for use by a computing device to predict subsequent navigation by the computing device to one or more network addresses, at least part of the predicted navigation not involving a link included in a current content item accessed by the computing device.