Similar to DNS prefetching, image preloading/prefetching with JavaScript to get faster page loading experience.

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Image Preloading

Modern image preloading/prefetching plugin for WordPress to improve page loading performance.

Ravikumar Patel

webbymonks

<p>Preload images to get faster page loading experience. Preload Images plugin supports unlimited image urls, good for photo galleries and other image-heavy sites where you want to deliver the photos as seamlessly as possible.</p>


Preload Images

I found myself needing to pre-load some images and started to figure out how to do it by hand when I thought "If you have a need in WordPress, there's probably a plugin for it." So I went hunting and found this plugin.

Gutenberg made it a little hard to see the meta box on Pages at first, but I found it.

I REALLY like that you can preload per page/post, or have them global.  Nicely done.

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