> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.transparentedge.eu/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.transparentedge.eu/getting-started/faq/features/prefechting.md).

# Prefechting

Prefetching is a functionality that lets us fetch content before it reaches users. It can be very useful on occasion. Let’s look at two examples:

* Your website sees low traffic, but when a user arrives and requests an object, you still want it to be served by the CDN's cache.
* You’re going to launch your new website and you’re expecting a great influx of visitors, which translates into a high number of requests to the CDN. If the CDN is cold and doesn’t have any objects cached, when you go live a flood of requests to your origin servers could cause systems to collapse.

To find out how to do a prefetch, click this[ link](https://docs.transparentedge.eu/getting-started/dashboard/prefetch).


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