In other embodiments, at step 1540, the intercepting device, such as appliance 200 or client 102, performs a speculative request, such as a prefetch or prefresh, of the DNS cached information 1580 in accordance with methods 700 and/or 750 as discussed in conjunction with FIGS. 7B and 7D. In these embodiments, the device intercepts a page transmitted to a client 102.