Prefetch newest post when visiting the front page

getnikola · Mar 22, 2015 · 4cd4584 · 4cd4584 · Kwpolska · Mar 22, 2015
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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ New in master
 Features
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+* Instruct browsers to prefetch newest post when visiting the front page
 * Add a ``sort`` parameter to the post-list directive to sort posts in
   the list using natsort. (Issue #1635)
 

diff --git a/nikola/data/themes/base/templates/index.tmpl b/nikola/data/themes/base/templates/index.tmpl
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 <%namespace name="comments" file="comments_helper.tmpl"/>
 <%inherit file="base.tmpl"/>
 
+<%block name="extra_head">
+    ${parent.extra_head()}
+    % if permalink == '/' or permalink == '/' + index_file:
+        <link rel="prefetch" href="${posts[0].permalink()}" type="text/html">
+    % endif
+</%block>
+
 <%block name="content">
 <div class="postindex">
 % for post in posts: