Preload Links
🚀 Available from WP Rocket 3.7
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About this feature
Preloading links will improve the perceived loading time of pages for a user navigating your site. If a user hovers over, or touches, a link for 100ms or more, the HTML of that page will be fetched in the background, so that when they actually click the link, the page will appear to load nearly instantly!
This option only improves the user experience and perceived load time - you will not notice any difference in your PageSpeed score or loading time as measured by Pingdom, GT Metrix etc.
This optimization is applied on all pages - both cached and uncached.
Heads up! This feature is supported by Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. Other browsers may support this feature in the future.
Preloading links in action
The gif below demonstrates this feature in action:
Automatic exclusions
We automatically exclude some URLs from this feature to prevent unexpected results:
- Any URL from
wp-admin, login/logout - URLs excluded from cache by WP Rocket configuration
- Images
- Links with a query string or an anchor
- External URLs
Plugin compatibility
This feature replaces the need for the following plugins and if they are detected, you will be prompted to deactivate them:
- instant.page
- Flying Pages
- Quicklink