27. A method of operating a target user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving a crowd-sourced hints list from a hints server to assist the target UE to perform an initial load of a web page, the crowd-sourced hints list listing one or more hints generated by one or more other UEs based upon web page resource information acquired from a web server by the one or more other UEs that is required to load the web page at the one or more other UEs; obtaining the web page resource information for the web page based on the crowd-sourced hints list without interacting with the web server to acquire the web page resource information; and loading the web page using the web page resource information that is obtained based on the crowd-sourced hints list.
27. A method of operating a target user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving a crowd-sourced hints list from a hints server to assist the target UE to perform an initial load of a web page, the crowd-sourced hints list listing one or more hints generated by one or more other UEs based upon web page resource information acquired from a web server by the one or more other UEs that is required to load the web page at the one or more other UEs; obtaining the web page resource information for the web page based on the crowd-sourced hints list without interacting with the web server to acquire the web page resource information; and loading the web page using the web page resource information that is obtained based on the crowd-sourced hints list. 29. The method of claim 27 , further comprising: obtaining, from the web server, additional web page resource information for loading the web page on the target UE; determining, based on the additional web page resource information obtained from the web server, one or more hints for assisting mobile browsing applications on one or more additional UEs to perform an initial load of the web page; and reporting the one or more hints to the hints server for selective distribution to the one or more additional UEs.