The present invention relates to systems, apparatus, and methods of accelerating web transactions. One embodiment includes observing, with a web browser plug-in operating on a computer, at least a portion of a first web page transaction in a web browser operating on the computer. A web browser module may be used to identify transaction information from the observing of the at least a portion of the first web page transaction. The browser may communicate transaction information to a prefetching system in a communication separate from the first web page transaction; and the transaction information may be used to perform a prefetch operation.