Intent to Extend Experiment: Speculative load measurement

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Yoav Weiss (@Shopify)

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Sep 7, 2026, 10:10:27 AMSep 7
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Contact emails
yoav...@chromium.org, barryp...@google.com

Explainer
https://github.com/WICG/speculative_load_measurement/blob/main/README.md

Specification
No information provided

Summary
Expose measurement data regarding speculative loads (preloads, prefetches and prerenders) as part of a newly exposed `performance.getSpeculations()` method. That would enable developers to measure the efficacy of various speculative loading strategies and adapt them accordingly.

Blink component
Blink>PerformanceAPIs

Web Feature ID
Missing feature

TAG review
No information provided

TAG review status
Pending

Origin Trial Name
Speculative Load measurement

Goals for experimentation
None

Chromium Trial Name
SpeculationMeasurement

Origin Trial documentation link
https://github.com/WICG/speculative_load_measurement#speculative-load-measurement-api

WebFeature UseCounter name
kSpeculationMeasurement

Risks


Interoperability and Compatibility
No information provided

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

No information provided


Reason this experiment is being extended
I'd like an extension for the trial for a couple of reasons: 
* Some partners are just able to start experimenting now, and their input would be valuable. 
* For most of the trial, we had a very significant bug in navigation reporting. The fix just landed in stable, so it seems worthwhile to continue the experimentation. 

Beyond that, since the milestone cadence changed mid-trial, The trial can actually run until M158 before the initial 6 months run out.

Ongoing technical constraints
No information provided

Debuggability
No information provided

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?
No

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
No


Flag name on about://flags
No information provided

Finch feature name
No information provided

Non-finch justification
No information provided

Requires code in //chrome?
False

Tracking bug
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/481590676

Estimated milestones
Origin trial desktop first150
Origin trial desktop last155
Origin trial extension 1 end milestone158


Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5118840377835520?gate=5091372532105216

Links to previous Intent discussions
Intent to Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAOmohSJA9q57gnHFyJ1WqUUJi2AX5UCmtDM50URp9hjx3J4WJg%40mail.gmail.com
Intent to Experiment: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAOmohSKBXF5hKYn9Lp6AvyEnESrBSvruyCVcHVcJae-56dcYNQ%40mail.gmail.com


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Chris Harrelson

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Sep 9, 2026, 11:32:49 AMSep 9
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LGTM

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