diff --git a/addons/website/controllers/main.py b/addons/website/controllers/main.py
index 8019abba5c4..df2bf628660 100644
--- a/addons/website/controllers/main.py
+++ b/addons/website/controllers/main.py
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ class Website(Home):
 
     @http.route('/', type='http', auth="public", website=True, sitemap=True)
     def index(self, **kw):
+        # prefetch all menus (it will prefetch website.page too)
+        top_menu = request.website.menu_id
+
         homepage = request.website.homepage_id
         if homepage and (homepage.sudo().is_visible or request.env.user.has_group('base.group_user')) and homepage.url != '/':
             return request.env['ir.http'].reroute(homepage.url)
@@ -76,7 +79,6 @@ class Website(Home):
         if website_page:
             return website_page
         else:
-            top_menu = request.website.menu_id
             first_menu = top_menu and top_menu.child_id and top_menu.child_id.filtered(lambda menu: menu.is_visible)
             if first_menu and first_menu[0].url not in ('/', '', '#') and (not (first_menu[0].url.startswith(('/?', '/#', ' ')))):
                 return request.redirect(first_menu[0].url)
diff --git a/addons/website/models/ir_http.py b/addons/website/models/ir_http.py
index 80ec1d9f0c7..c850a3a4e0b 100644
--- a/addons/website/models/ir_http.py
+++ b/addons/website/models/ir_http.py
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ class Http(models.AbstractModel):
         published_domain = page_domain
         # specific page first
         page = request.env['website.page'].sudo().search(published_domain, order='website_id asc', limit=1)
+        if page:
+            # prefetch all menus (it will prefetch website.page too)
+            request.website.menu_id
         if page and (request.website.is_publisher() or page.is_visible):
             _, ext = os.path.splitext(req_page)
             return request.render(page.get_view_identifier(), {
diff --git a/addons/website/tests/test_performance.py b/addons/website/tests/test_performance.py
index c257de62b88..92e1616f29a 100644
--- a/addons/website/tests/test_performance.py
+++ b/addons/website/tests/test_performance.py
@@ -77,25 +77,25 @@ class TestWebsitePerformance(UtilPerf):
 
     def test_10_perf_sql_queries_page(self):
         # standard untracked website.page
-        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 14)
+        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 12)
         self.menu.unlink()
         self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 14)
 
     def test_15_perf_sql_queries_page(self):
         # standard tracked website.page
         self.page.track = True
-        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 22)
+        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 20)
         self.menu.unlink()
         self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 22)
 
     def test_20_perf_sql_queries_homepage(self):
         # homepage "/" has its own controller
-        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query('/'), 21)
+        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query('/'), 19)
 
     def test_30_perf_sql_queries_page_no_layout(self):
         # website.page with no call to layout templates
         self.page.arch = '<div>I am a blank page</div>'
-        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 8)
+        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 10)
 
     def test_40_perf_sql_queries_page_multi_level_menu(self):
         # menu structure should not impact SQL requests
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class TestWebsitePerformance(UtilPerf):
         menu_bb.parent_id = menu_b
         menu_aa.parent_id = menu_a
 
-        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 14)
+        self.assertEqual(self._get_url_hot_query(self.page.url), 12)
 
     def test_50_perf_sql_web_content(self):
         # assets route /web/content/..