Adds dns-prefetch and prerender functionalities on WordPress for better PageSpeed.
As of April 2026, wuk.ch DNS-Prefetch / Prerender is a WordPress speed plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One….
The Plugin implements 2 things:
DNS-Prefetch
It looks for all CSS and JS Files which are loaded from external webpages and implement a dns-prefetch header tag.
This saves a lot of connection time on page load.
HTML5 Prefetch and Google Prerender
It makes a new table with small statistics and measures (internal) referal page to next page.
With these statistics, the most clicked “next” page will be automatically added as prerender. Prerender opens with very small CPU load the “next” guessed page already as a hidden Tab in the client browser. If the client select this page, the page can instantly showed without delay.
Tests have shown a pageload decrease of 68%.
Please note: The prerender needs some stats to work correctly. Don’t try to generate some statistic,…
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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