Albert Bertilsson

<p>A classical optimization on a web site is to configure cache headers of a page to enable the browser to display the page instantly if it has been loaded recently. This works very well when the user is hitting the back button to go back to the previous page.</p>
<p>What if we could do the same for the next page that the user will request? With this plugin this is now possible!</p>
<p>Fast Forward works by analyzing which pages are most frequently navigated to from the current page. The page with most traffic is then given as a preload hint to the users browser. For technical details please see: http://albertsnotes.blogspot.se/2012/06/browser-preloading.html.</p>


Fast Forward

Help browsers preload content to speed up the next page view.

SiamKreative

Julien Liabeuf

<p>This plugin does only one thing: it allows you to prerender specific pages / posts on your WordPress site.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender" rel="nofollow ugc">prerendering</a> feature which will make your website faster, as the browser will fetch and render the entire next page on the background.</p>
<p>Therefore, if you know which page your visitors are most likely to visit next, you can preload it. The User Experience (UX) will therefore be slightly better.</p>
<h4>Getting Started</h4>
<p>If you want more in-depth explanations, we’ve written a mini-tutorial on our blog: <a href="https://themeavenue.net/behavior-flow-faster-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Behavior Flow: Speed Up Your WordPress Site</a></p>
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<li>Firstly, you need to determine how your users traverse and interact with your site. Simply <a href="https://www.google.com/analytics/web/#home/" rel="nofollow ugc">sign in to Google Analytics</a> and go to the Behavior Flow page (<a href="https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2785577?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">Analytics Help</a>).</li>
<li>Login to your WordPress site, install and activate this plugin.</li>
<li>Edit the page where most visitors land (<em>most likely your homepage</em>).</li>
<li>Scroll down to the meta box “Page to Prerender” and select the next page from the dropdown menu (the one that most visitors will browse next).</li>
<li>Hit the “Update” button!</li>
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<h4>Cons</h4>
<p>Enabling page prerendering will likely increase server load. You should figure out a good balance between prerendering and increasing the server load. Visitors that land on your site will request the entire next page even if they do not visit it…</p>


Behavior Flow

Better site performance and increased conversion rates using visitors' behavior flow

Fast Forward vs Behavior Flow