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.

Ravikumar Patel

webbymonks

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.

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.

Does an excellent job

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

Quicklink for WordPress vs Preload Images