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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.

WordPress.org

This plugin adds support for the <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Speculation_Rules_API" rel="nofollow ugc">Speculation Rules API</a>, which allows defining rules by which certain URLs are dynamically prefetched or prerendered. This core Speculative Loading functionality was <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2025/03/06/speculative-loading-in-6-8/" rel="nofollow ugc">merged into WordPress 6.8</a>, but it only prefetches with conservative eagerness by default. In contrast, this plugin defaults to prerendering with moderate eagerness (i.e. when interacting with a link), and it provides a user interface to customize the mode and eagerness via the “Speculative Loading” section on the Settings > Reading admin screen.
By default, speculative loading is only enabled for logged-out users, since unauthenticated pages are typically only eligible for caching and so more efficient to prefetch/prerender. This means that sites with frequent logged-in users on the frontend—such as e-commerce, forums, or membership sites—will not benefit from the feature. If your server can handle the additional load (for example, with persistent object caching), you can opt in to enable speculative loading for all logged-in users or for administrators only. This setting exclusively affects frontend pages; admin screens are always excluded.
A filter can be used to exclude certain URL paths from being eligible for prefetching and prerendering (see FAQ section). Alternatively, you can add the <code>no-prerender</code> CSS class to any link (<code><a></code> tag) that should not be prerendered. See FAQ for more information.
<h4>Browser support</h4>
The Speculation Rules API is a new web API, and the functionality used by the plugin is supported in Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome, Edge, or Opera using version 121 or above. Other browsers such as Safari and Firefox will ignore the functionality with no ill effects; they will simply not benefit from the speculative loading. Note that certain browser extensions may disable preloading by default.
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<li><a href="https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_script_type_speculationrules" rel="nofollow ugc">Browser support for the Speculation Rules API in general</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/prerender-pages" rel="nofollow ugc">Information on document rules syntax support used by the plugin</a></li>
</ul>
This plugin was formerly known as Speculation Rules.

Speculative Loading

Nice


Amazing results on install. Will continue to check this one out. 


Interesting and Impressive

Does what it needs to do.

Enables browsers to speculatively prerender or prefetch pages to achieve near-instant loads based on user interaction.

Smart Prefetch: Unlock Lightning-Fast Navigation vs Speculative Loading