Loading the previous page is essentially instant, because the entire page can be restored from memory, without having to go to the network at all. Check out this video of bfcache in action to understand the speed up it can bring to navigations: Using bfcache makes pages load much more quickly during back and forward navigation. In the video, the example with bfcache is quite a bit faster than the
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