Quicklink for WordPress

by WP Munich

Description

Quicklink for WordPress attempts to make navigation to subsequent pages load faster. Embedded with the plugin is a javascript library, which detects links in the viewport, waits until the browser is idle and prefetches the URLs for these links. The library also tries to detect, if the user is on a slow connection or on a data plan.

This plugin builds heavily on the amazing work done by Google Chrome Labs.

More information about Quicklink on the official Website.

How it works

Detects links within the viewport (using Intersection Observer)
Waits until the browser is idle (using requestIdleCallback)
Checks if the user isn’t on a slow connection (using navigator.connection.effectiveType) or has data-saver enabled (using navigator.connection.saveData)
Prefetches URLs to the links (using <link rel=prefetch> or XHR). Provides some control over the request priority (can switch to fetch() if supported).

If you are a developer, we encourage you to follow along or contribute to the development of this plugin on GitHub.

Installation

From within WordPress

Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
Search for ‘Quicklink for WordPress’
Activate ‘Quicklink for WordPress’ from your Plugins page.

Manually

Upload the quicklink folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the Quicklink for WordPress plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Faq

Will this make my website faster?

Yes and no. This plugin has no impact on the actual performance of your website. But navigating the website will feel faster, because potential navigation targets of the user have been prefetched in the users browser.

Will this make my website slower?

Slowing down the site is highly unlikely, but possible. If this plugin is used with a caching plugin, the additional hits on the server should not impact performance. But if resource intensive, uncached targets are being prefetched, a performance loss is to be expected.

What can I do if my website is getting slower?

You should fist check, that a good caching plugin like “WP Super Cache”, “W3 Total Cache” or “WP Rocket” is enabled. If this is not enough you can always add exception rules to the Quicklink configuration by modifying the ‘quicklink_options’ filter.

Reviews

İşe Yarıyor 🙂

By kaptaninyeri on November 8, 2023

İşe Yarıyor 🙂

where i can see the performance?

By F (lifengquan52) on July 16, 2021

where i can see the performance?...i even don't see the performance for the link.It is there have any experience userinterface for that?

Works great with v5.3.2

By bcornellsjc on March 1, 2020

Very pleased with the performance of Quicklink for WP. It works as advertised on WP 5.3.2. 5 stars.

Thanks!

By illvart on January 26, 2020

Thanks for this wordpress plugin!

Awesome!!!

By David Elstob (davwaiguy) on June 26, 2019

This plugin is flawless. Only added it on a couple of sites, but my PageSpeed Insights scores are still the same. The plugin is written by reputable coders who know what they are doing. Definitely worth adding, because prefetching page links is all the rage. That's why the Jamstack websites such as Gatsby are so quick to navigate. If you want your WordPress to be as fast then this is the type of plugin you should be adding, once you've done the basics like W3 Total Cache, Smush and the rest...

Awesome, but not sure if it supports all browsers

By sebas6691 on February 27, 2019

I use this plugin in combination with WP Rocket and lazyloading. It works perfectly together, no issues or what so ever. But I'm not sure if this plugin is supported by all browsers. It works smoothly on Chrome, but on Firefox I don't seem to notice a difference. Got to test it with other browsers. But overall, good plugin. Recommended.

Destroyed my site speed 1.2secs to 14secs

By maltonge on February 21, 2019

I was advised by SemRush to use this plugin I thought id try it on an already optimized website. pagespeed went from 1.2sec to 14secs Like WTF, GTmetrix went from 100google 96 yslow to 88google and 76 yslow. Really this pluging is not good and if you are thinking of using this you should check scores before and after activation. For me tho this caused 14sec page load and increased 140kb in page size. Devs if you would like to contact me then feel free. seodevs.com I will welcome you to check the cause so you can improve the Plugin.

Why isn't this more popular?

By muppetmania on February 10, 2019

Such a great plugin! Literally it will make your website seem like the fastest thing out there to the end user. It comes with a price, of course, you'll end up with a lot of "pages visited" in your webserver logs that the client didn't really visit, they were just preloaded in case the user clicked. But overall it makes your website seem like it's the fastest thing out there, clicking on other links etc on the page and they load straight away (tested for me with Chrome) This is really a great add-on, along with a wp-cache plugin you'll have the fastest site out there by miles.

Awesome

By Renomart on February 9, 2019

So far, so good!

Great plugin

By christianoliff (lovememore) on February 1, 2019

Thanks for publishing this. Works really well. Would be nice to see option to loading Quicklink from a CDN.

Changelog

0.10.4

General maintenance for the repository

0.10.0

General maintenance for the repository
Updated Quicklink dependency to version 2.3
Tested for WordPress 6.2

0.9.0

General maintenance for the repository
Updated Quicklink dependency to version 2.2
Tested for WordPress 5.8

0.8.0

Updated Quicklink dependency to version 2.0

0.7.3

Made a function have a less generic name

0.7.1

Fix some more deprecations with WooCommerce

0.7.0

Changed the defaults to ignore links with get requests to improve compatibility
Removed some deprecated functions for WooCommerce

0.6.0

Updated Quicklink to version 1.0.1

0.5.0

Added rules and compatibility for WooCommerce

0.4.0

Updated the script loading to load asynchronously
Updated the plugin assets

0.3.0

Added compatibility with AMP
Added amazing contributors
Added the new WordPress filter ‘quicklink_options’ to modify quicklink settings

0.2.0

Release for the plugin repository
Tuned quicklink ignores for WordPress

0.1.0

Initial release