Speculative Loading
Enables browsers to speculatively prerender or prefetch pages to achieve near-instant loads based on user interaction.
5(18 reviews)
·70K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Speculative Loading is a WordPress prefetch plugin with 70K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 18 reviews. It has been downloaded 407K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2024. Downloads are down 29% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster….
5/518 reviews
70K+active installs
100%resolved
2 yearssince 2024
Overview
This plugin adds support for the Speculation Rules API, which allows defining rules by which certain URLs are dynamically prefetched or prerendered. This core Speculative Loading functionality was merged into WordPress 6.8, 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 t…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very promising and impressive plugin!
by Terry J·11 months ago
Although I have not tried the plugin on live sites, my testing on 3-4 dev boxes leaves me impressed. I can see and feel the speed increase
I have a couple of heavy sites and can see this plugin fitting right into the flow. Will get on it soon 🙂
Does what it needs to do.
by OllieJones·1 year ago
This works. That’s good.
Very fast and functional – Thanks for this.
by mrimpact·1 year ago
We have done a lot of testing on WordPress sites and WooCommerce stores. Everything works beautifully and fast.
Thank you very much for this amazing plugin.
Seriously Impressive
by groggy72·1 year ago·1 reply
I was using another plugin which does a similar job but Speculative Loading appears to be substantially quicker. Using on about 10 sites and no issues. Thank you
Interesting and Impressive
by Hudson Atwell·1 year ago
Amazing results on install. Will continue to check this one out.
Download Trends
Today: 146Yesterday: 346This week: 2KPeriod total: 226K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.6
80.7%
v1.5
10.5%
v1.3
5.9%
Other
2.9%
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Changelog
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