Should we be Link Prefetching all sidebar links?

[lukewarlow]

Similar to #921 but more to discuss if we should even be Prefetching the sidebar links?

Prefetch should be used where a navigation is likely. For example we should prefetch the View Proposal / View Research links on respective pages. But Prefetching all sidebar links feels like a waste of network hops (especially when it's doubled up see above linked issue) when it's unlikely people will visit all of them.

[gregwhitworth]

@lukewarlow I don't have a strong opinion but the most used pages are the home page, active proposals, design systems and getting involved.

Looking at the analytics I think we're getting hit with bots pretty hard as there is no way that this traffic is legit.

[github-actions]

There hasn't been any discussion on this issue for a while, so we're marking it as stale. If you choose to kick off the discussion again, we'll remove the 'stale' label.

[lukewarlow]

#1153 - somewhat fixes this. The default prefetch approach has changed to prefetch on link hover. This way we don't prefetch every page in the sidebar on load of any other page