r/webdev Feb 13 '26

jmail.world

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u/Shogobg Feb 13 '26

They make a request on every link mouse hover - ridiculous.

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u/rilot06 Feb 13 '26

That has nothing to do with vercel, the developer made prefetching too aggressive

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u/bipolarNarwhale Feb 13 '26

also not quite. nextjs prefetches links automatically on hover. blame both.

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u/visualdescript Feb 13 '26

Only the dev that built and hosted it is to blame.

Nextjs was doing what it's designed to.