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Slow-loading websites hurt your SEO, frustrate users, and kill conversions. 
Smart Prefetch uses AI-based predictions to prefetch the next most likely page before users click—boosting speed, UX, and revenue.
Unlike basic prefetching plugins that load every visible link, <a href="https://smartprefetch.link/" rel="nofollow ugc">Smart Prefetch</a> uses a data-driven AI models to identify which link a user is most likely to click next, based on behavior patterns, device, country, and more. It then injects prefetch hints at the right time — after critical resources load — to avoid hurting current page performance.
This means your visitors get fast, responsive navigation without the resource drain of indiscriminate prefetching.
Improve Google PageSpeed scores and Core Web Vitals, delight your users, and gain an edge in SEO rankings — with zero coding required.
Perfect for bloggers, businesses, eCommerce, and anyone serious about speed.
Smart Prefetch leverages the browser’s native Speculation Rules API to dynamically inject prefetch hints based on predictive signals. This modern browser feature is designed specifically to improve the performance of future navigations, making Smart Prefetch both forward-compatible and standards-based.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Intelligent, data-driven prefetching tailored to real user behavior and context.</li>
<li>Predicts the most probable next page based on usage patterns.</li>
<li>Built on the Speculation Rules API, a modern browser standard for predicting and preloading future navigations.</li>
<li>Prefetches before the click, enabling near-instant navigation between pages.</li>
<li>Delays prefetch requests until after key resources are loaded to avoid performance conflicts.</li>
<li>Helps improve Core Web Vitals scores (especially responsiveness and perceived load time).</li>
<li>Easy to set up — no advanced configuration required.</li>
<li>Optional dashboard visibility into prefetching behavior.</li>
<li>Lightweight, optimized frontend script — adds negligible overhead.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why Use Smart Prefetch Plugin?</h3>
<ul>
<li>⚡ Boost Website Speed: Make your site feel instantly responsive.</li>
<li>🎯 Improve User Experience: Keep visitors engaged with seamless browsing.</li>
<li>🔍 Enhance SEO: Better performance = better search rankings.</li>
<li>📉 Reduce Bounce Rates: Faster sites retain more users.</li>
<li>💰 Increase Conversions: Speed drives action. A smoother journey = more sales/signups.</li>
<li>👌 Simple to Configure: No developer needed to benefit from modern performance tech.</li>
</ul>
<h3>From within WordPress</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to Plugins > Add New</li>
<li>Search for “Smart Prefetch Plugin“</li>
<li>Click Install Now, then Activate</li>
</ol>
<h3>Manually</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download the plugin ZIP from this page</li>
<li>Upload it to your site via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin</li>
<li>Click Install Now, then Activate</li>
</ol>
After activation, you’re good to go! Prefetching works out of the box.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to an <a href="https://speculation-rules.smartprefetch.link" rel="nofollow ugc">API</a> to collect and obtain page navigation history, it’s needed for the prefetch algorithm to predict the most accurate future navigation and prefetch the page for speculations rules.
The plugin sends the site visitors’s previous page and current page URL every time a page is loaded, along with anonymous device information such as screen type, network strength, time zone of the browser etc to the plugin’s backend server. We do not collect or transmit any personally identifiable information (PII) or sensitive user data from your site visitors. 
This service is provided by “SmartPrefetch.link”: by using the plugin, you agree to our <a href="https://smartprefetch.link/terms-service/" rel="nofollow ugc">terms of use</a> and <a href="https://smartprefetch.link/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a>.
<h3>Support</h3>
Need help? Visit the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/smart-prefetch-plugin/" rel="ugc">support forum</a> to ask questions or get assistance.
<h3>Reviews</h3>
Love the speed boost? Let others know! 
⭐ Leave a review on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-prefetch-plugin/" rel="ugc">plugin page</a> — your feedback helps us grow!
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html for details.

Smart Prefetch: Unlock Lightning-Fast Navigation

Intelligently boost speed, UX, SEO & conversions with predictive prefetching — faster page loads powered by smart, data-driven link prediction.

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>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
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.

Smart Prefetch: Unlock Lightning-Fast Navigation vs Quicklink for WordPress