Alex Kozack

<p>After loading the page, the plugin starts to follow the user’s screen. And as soon as a link appears on the screen within your site – the browser executes the request and downloads it. Now that the user clicks on the link, the browser will instantly display a new cache page. Thus, User Experience will indicate that your site is loading instantly.</p>
<h3>How it work</h3>
<p>The plugin uses the built-in browser features to predict user behavior for preloading the tourniquet. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching" title="Link prefetching" rel="nofollow ugc">this</a></p>
<h3>API</h3>
<p>The plugin also registers a global feature that you can use to preload any URL:</p>
<pre><code>window.prefetch('https://example.com/custom/page')
</code></pre>


Prefetch visible links

Preloads the page before the visitor clicks on the link.

Gijo Varghese

<p>Flying Pages preload pages before the user click on it, making them load instantly</p>
<h3>How it Works?</h3>
<p>Flying Pages injects a tiny JavaScript code (1KB gzipped), waits until the browser becomes idle. Then it detects pages in the viewport and on mouse hover and preloads them.</p>
<p>Flying Pages is intelligent to make sure preloading doesn’t crash your server or make it slow.</p>
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<p><strong>Preload pages in the viewport</strong> – Detect links within the viewport (current viewing area) using ‘Intersection Observer’ and tells the browser to preload them using ‘prefetch’, switch to xhr if not available (similar to <a href="https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/quicklink" rel="nofollow ugc">Quicklink</a>).</p>
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<p><strong>Preload pages on mouse hover</strong> – On hovering links, if it’s not preloaded yet using above ‘viewport’, then Flying Pages will prefetch them instantly (similar to <a href="https://instant.page/" rel="nofollow ugc">Instant.page</a>).</p>
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<p><strong>Limits the number of preloads per second</strong> – If your page has too many links, prefetching all at the same time will cause the server to crash or slow down the website to visitors. Flying Pages limits the number of preloads per second (3 req/sec by default) using an in-built queue. For example, if you’ve 10 links in the viewport, preloading all these are span into 4 seconds.</p>
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<p><strong>Stops preloading if the server is busy</strong> – In case the server starts to respond slowly or return errors, preloading will be stopped to reduce the server load.</p>
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<p><strong>Understands user’s connection and preferences</strong> – Checks if the user is on a slow connection like 2G or has enabled data-saver. Flying Pages won’t preload anything in this case.</p>
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<h3>Support</h3>
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<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/flying-pages/" rel="ugc">Official Support Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/wpspeedmatters" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook Group</a></li>
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<h3>Our premium products</h3>
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<li><a href="https://flyingpress.com" rel="nofollow ugc">FlyingPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://flyingcdn.com" rel="nofollow ugc">FlyingCDN</a></li>
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<h3>Our free plugins</h3>
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<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/flying-pages/" rel="ugc">Flying Pages</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/nazy-load/" rel="ugc">Flying Images</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/flying-scripts/" rel="ugc">Flying Scripts</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/flying-analytics/" rel="ugc">Flying Analytics</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/flying-fonts/" rel="ugc">Flying Fonts</a></li>
</ul>


Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience

Preload pages intelligently to boost site speed and enhance user experience by loading pages before users click, ensuring instant page transitions.

Prefetch visible links vs Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience