Weston Ruter

Google

Hendrik Luehrsen

WP Munich

Quicklink for WordPress attempts to make navigation to subsequent pages load faster. Embedded with the plugin is a javascript library, which detects links in the viewport, waits until the browser is idle and prefetches the URLs for these links. The library also tries to detect, if the user is on a slow connection or on a data plan.
This plugin builds heavily on the amazing work done by <a href="https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/quicklink" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Chrome Labs</a>.
More information about <a href="https://getquick.link" rel="nofollow ugc">Quicklink on the official Website</a>.
<h4>How it works</h4>
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<li>Detects links within the viewport (using <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersection_Observer_API" rel="nofollow ugc">Intersection Observer</a>)</li>
<li>Waits until the browser is idle (using <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/requestIdleCallback" rel="nofollow ugc">requestIdleCallback</a>)</li>
<li>Checks if the user isn’t on a slow connection (using <code>navigator.connection.effectiveType</code>) or has data-saver enabled (using <code>navigator.connection.saveData</code>)</li>
<li>Prefetches URLs to the links (using <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/#prefetch" rel="nofollow ugc"><code><link rel=prefetch></code></a> or XHR). Provides some control over the request priority (can switch to <code>fetch()</code> if supported).</li>
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If you are a developer, we encourage you to follow along or <a href="https://github.com/luehrsenheinrich/wp-quicklink" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute</a> to the development of this plugin <a href="https://github.com/luehrsenheinrich/wp-quicklink" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.

Quicklink for WordPress

Thanks for publishing this. Works really well. Would be nice to see option to loading Quicklink from a CDN.

Great plugin

⚡️ Faster subsequent page-loads by prefetching in-viewport links during idle time.

Oxyplug Team

<ul>
<li>Supported only on Chromium-based browsers since version 121+</li>
<li>In the post/product category pages, first X items will be prefetched before the user clicks. The default value for X is 4 items and can be adjusted via the plugin settings.</li>
<li>If a user hovers over a link, the destination page will be prefetched before click. Please note that this option is disabled by default and can be enabled via the plugin settings.</li>
<li>It is also possible to prefetch some custom links on posts/products by entering preferred URLs.</li>
<li>Similar actions can be applied with prerender.</li>
</ul>

Oxyplug Prefetch & Prerender

Faster loading next pages by prerendering/prefetching all links a user hovers or addresses you prefer. It improves UX and Core Web Vitals score.

Quicklink for WordPress vs Oxyplug Prefetch & Prerender