Title: Prerender and Prefetch Author: Francisco Torres Published: November 12, 2012 Last modified: November 12, 2012 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/prerender-and-prefetch/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=624074) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/prerender-and-prefetch_bfca88.svg) # Prerender and Prefetch By [Francisco Torres](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frantorres/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch.zip) * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/prerender-and-prefetch/#description) * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/prerender-and-prefetch/#reviews) * [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/prerender-and-prefetch/#installation) * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/prerender-and-prefetch/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch/) ## Description ¿What is [Prerender](https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender) and [Prefetch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching)? Nice question. It’s a new-navigators technique (ok i’m a liar, Mozilla do it from 2003!) that loads in background the next page you believe the visitor is going to visit. This plugin puts the required metatag in your WordPress pages, based on settings you can change, allowing those compatible navigators to do a pre-load of the next page. When the visitor try to visit that page Boom! it just appears without need to wait for it! #### Testing Prerender and Prefetch Support in your navigator You can [test here Chrome’s prerender](http://prerender-test.appspot.com/) with any page. #### Install and after install *When installing, remember to set the server’s load limit on settings. *This is a plugin in development, feel free to ask questions in “Support” section and colaborate with it. ## Screenshots * [[ * Settings menu, remember to set the “Server load to stop” parameter * [[ * When you go from one page to another that is prerender it takes like… ¿300ms? it’s just a blink (Test done with Chrome’s Browser with prerender activated in browser and in page, configured for that link to being prerendered (be in blog page->post number 1), and with the plugin not limited by server load.) ## Installation 1. Upload the plugin to your plugins directory 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. Configure the server’s maximum load (because of pre-load can increase the server’s load, you have to configure a limit where Prerender and Prefetch will be off) 4. Enjoy! Go fast! ## FAQ What is Prerender and Prefetch They are techniques to do a preload in background of another page, the logical use to this is load the page is going most-probably to be the next page the visitor is going to go. So the visitor don’t have to wait for the load of that page, it was already loaded in background and just shows up!. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Prerender and Prefetch” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Francisco Torres ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frantorres/) [Translate “Prerender and Prefetch” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/prerender-and-prefetch) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/prerender-and-prefetch/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/prerender-and-prefetch/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/prerender-and-prefetch/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/prerender-and-prefetch/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.93 * Initial working version ## Meta * Version **0.93** * Last updated **13 years ago** * Active installations **50+** * WordPress version ** 3.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.4.2** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/prerender-and-prefetch/) * Tags * [load](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/load/)[prefetch](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/prefetch/) [preload](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/preload/)[prerender](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/prerender/) [speed](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/speed/) * [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/prerender-and-prefetch/advanced/) ## Ratings 4 out of 5 stars. * [ 0 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 1 4-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Francisco Torres ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/frantorres/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/prerender-and-prefetch/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://frantorres.es/prerender-and-prefetch-wp-plugin/)