WordPress releases “Near Instant Load Times” a performance Plugin

A plugin that provides support for speculative loading, a cutting-edge technique that can assist enhance site performance and visitor experience, was officially launched by WordPress.

H1, Random Loading
Building the complete webpage so that it appears instantaneously is known as rendering. Rendering is the process by which your browser gathers HTML, pictures, and other resources and assembles them into a webpage. Prerendering is the process of creating that webpage in the background.

This plugin allows the browser to render the whole webpage that the user may choose to see at a later time in advance. By predicting the webpage the user would navigate to based on where they are hovering, the plugin accomplishes that.

Because earlier approaches were only prefetching resources like JavaScript and CSS rather than truly prerendering the full webpage, the Speculative Loading API addresses an issue that those earlier approaches were unable to address.

The Speculation Rules API is now supported by the latest WordPress plugin. A fantastic source for technical understanding of HTML is the Mozilla Developer Pages, which describe

H3, Plugin for Performance Lab
The official WordPress performance team, which periodically releases new plugins for users to test before they may be included into the core WordPress software, is responsible for developing the latest plugin. Thus, it’s a great chance to test out new performance technologies early.

Pages, articles, and archive pages are the “WordPress frontend URLs” that the new WordPress plugin is configured to prerender by default. You can adjust how it operates in the settings.

Setting ^ Reading ^Spectulative loading

H3, Compatibility of Browsers
Chrome 108 can support the Speculative API, but Chrome 121 or later is needed to employ the particular rules that the new plugin uses. Early in 2024, Chrome 121 was made available.

The plugin will be ignored by non-supporting browsers and won’t affect the user experience in any way.

Take a look at the latest WordPress plugin called Speculative Loading, created by the official core performance team of WordPress.

H4, Download the plugin:
Speculative Loading Plugin by the WordPress Performance Team