Speculative Page Loader – Prefetch and Prerender
Improve Core Web Vitals and SEO with speculative loading. This plugin prefetches and prerenders web pages to enable near-instant loads and faster perf …
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Maintained • Last updated 140 days ago
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Description
Improve your WordPress site’s speed, SEO, and user experience with speculative loading technology.
The Speculative Page Loader plugin intelligently prefetches and prerenders important resources to deliver near-instant page loads across your site. By predicting which pages users are likely to visit next, it reduces perceived load times and boosts engagement.
It leverages advanced speculative loading techniques to preload internal links, optimize interactions, and enhance Core Web Vitals. Easily configure settings to enable preloading for specific post types, popular pages, and custom URLs.
Features
- Enable or disable speculative loading with a toggle.
- Define custom speculation rules for prefetching content.
- Add up to 2 custom URLs for speculative prefetching/prerendering.
- Choose allowed post types for custom URL inclusion.
- Add up to 1 custom URLs post/page specific for speculative prefetching/prerendering.
- Exclude specific URLs from being prefetched/prerendered to save server resources.
- SEO-optimized and Core Web Vitals-friendly.
- Seamlessly works with other popular plugins.
- User-friendly admin interface for easy configuration.
Note
- Currently, this feature is only supported on Chromium-based browsers running version 121 or later. We plan to gracefully introduce support for other browsers as they begin to adopt speculation rules.
Usage
- Navigate to Speculative Page Loader in admin menu.
- Configure your speculative loading rules and plugin options.
- Save your settings.
- The plugin will begin prefetching resources based on your configured rules.
Installation
- Download the plugin ZIP file.
- Upload it via the WordPress dashboard under Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
- Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu.
Frequently Asked Questions
Speculative loading is a technique where a website prefetches or prerenders resources a user might access next. It improves performance by reducing load times for future page requests.
It reduces perceived load times by prefetching and prerendering pages based on user behavior and your custom rules, delivering a faster browsing experience.
Prefetch: Downloads resources (HTML, CSS, JS) and stores in memory/disk cache — low CPU, moderate RAM/disk use.
Prerender: Fully renders the page in the background — high RAM/CPU usage since it builds the full DOM + JS execution.
Absolutely. Faster loading pages improve user experience and positively impact SEO and Core Web Vitals.
Yes! You can include/exclude specific post types and URLs using the built-in settings panel.
Yes, it works smoothly with most major plugins.
No. It is designed to improve performance by loading resources intelligently, only when beneficial.
One common cause is caching interference. If your site uses a caching plugin, clear its cache to allow the speculation rules script to load correctly.
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Plugin Settings Panel – Customize speculation rules easily from the admin interface.
Changelog
1.0.0
- Release Date: August 12, 2025
- Initial release