17. The method of claim 11 , further comprising: receiving, from the one or more target UEs, one or more additional hints that are based upon additional web page resource information acquired from the web server in association with the initial load of the web page using the crowd-sourced hints list; evaluating a relevance of the one or more additional hints with respect to the initial load of the web page at the one or more target UEs; selectively updating the crowd-sourced hints list based on the relevance of the one or more additional hints.
11. A method of operating a hints server, comprising: receiving, from one or more UEs, one or more hints that are based upon web page resource information acquired from a web server that is required to load a web page at the one or more UEs; evaluating a relevance of the one or more hints with respect to an initial load of the web page at one or more target UEs; selectively generating or updating a crowd-sourced hints list based on the relevance of the one or more hints; and sending the crowd-sourced hints list to the one or more target UEs to assist the one or more target UEs perform the initial load of the web page without interacting with the web server to acquire the web page resource information.