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.

Kevin Batdorf

Works out of the box. After activating, this plugin will pre-fetch the next web page just before your user clicks, thus giving the experience of an instant page load.
Better UX. Perfect for slower and shared web hosting plans.
This plugin is a wrapper for instant.page with some additional options and designed to be ready-to-go out of the box. No configuration needed.
More from <a href="https://instant.page/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://instant.page/</a> –
instant.page uses just-in-time preloading — it preloads a page right before a user clicks on it.
Before a user clicks on a link, they hover their mouse over that link. When a user has hovered for 65 ms there is one chance out of two that they will click on that link, so instant.page starts preloading at this moment, leaving on average over 300 ms for the page to preload.
Easy on your server and your user’s data plan
Pages are preloaded only when there’s a good chance that a user is going to visit them, and it preloads only the HTML of that page, being respectful of your users’ and servers’ bandwidth and CPU. It’s 1 kB and loads after everything else. And it’s free and open source (MIT license).
Some Technical Info: https://instant.page/tech

WP Instant Links

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