How does Flying Pages work?

Flying Pages injects a tiny JavaScript code (1KB gzipped), waits until the browser becomes idle. Then it detects pages in the viewport and on mouse hover and preloads them. Flying Pages is intelligent to make sure preloading doesn't crash your server or make it slow.

How does Flying Pages preload pages in the viewport?

Flying Pages uses 'Intersection Observer' to detect links within the viewport and tells the browser to preload them using 'prefetch'. If 'prefetch' is not available, it switches to xhr.

How does Flying Pages preload pages on mouse hover?

On hovering links, if they are not preloaded yet using the viewport method, Flying Pages will prefetch them instantly.

Does Flying Pages limit the number of preloads per second?

Yes, Flying Pages limits the number of preloads per second to prevent server crashes or slow down the website. By default, it limits to 3 requests per second, using an in-built queue.

Does Flying Pages stop preloading if the server is busy?

Yes, Flying Pages stops preloading if the server starts to respond slowly or return errors, in order to reduce the server load.

Flying Pages - Preload and Instantly Load WordPress Plugin

Instantly load pages

Flying Pages preloads pages before the user clicks, ensuring instant loading for a seamless browsing experience.

Effortless page prefetching

Flying Pages intelligently detects pages in the viewport and on mouse hover, prefetching them instantly for quick and smooth navigation.

Prevent server overload

With its built-in queue and limits on preloads per second, Flying Pages prevents server crashes and slowdowns caused by excessive prefetching.

Author’s Site

2.4.7

Fixed PHP warnings

2.4.6

Updated FAQ

2.4.5

Fix: Missing Compatibility error

2.4.4

Updated shortcuts link

2.4.3

Updated “Optimize More” tab

2.4.2

[UPDATE] Added ‘/checkout’ and ‘.webp” to ignore keywords
[UPDATE] Minor update in JS file
[FIX] Cross-Site Scripting in admin settings form

2.4.1

[BUGFIX] Warnings and errors in Compatibility tab

2.4.0

[NEW] Compatibility tab

2.3.0

[BUGFIX] Stopped preloading when ignore list is empty
[NEW] FAQ
[NEW] Optimize more

2.2.2

Bug fix for Fast Velocity Minify plugin

2.2.1

Addtional options to mouse hover delay (0ms) and max rps (2s)
Disable for logged in admins by default

2.2.0

Moved option’s config object to window
Separate option for ‘preload only on mouse hover’
Start flyingPages() without waiting for DOMContentLoaded
Improved babel setup
Removed arrow functions for IE compatibility

2.1.2

Removed XMLHttpRequest and improved minification of JS file (reduce size by ~300bytes)
Added option ‘2 secs’ to delay to start preloading

2.1.1

Changing JavaScript scope to prevent conflicts with other plugins using same variables

2.1.0

Option to disable preloading when logged in as administrator

2.0.9

Disable on Internet Explorer
Renamed observer object to prevent conflicts with other plugins

2.0.8

Ignore query strings by default

2.0.7

Allow 1 second in delay

2.0.6

Better compatibility for WooCommerce
Prefetching on mobile using ‘touchstart’

2.0.5

Bug fix – Start queue only after calling main function, causing errors in browser console

2.0.4

Bug fix – Issues with Swift Performance cache plugin when ‘Merge Scripts’ is enabled

2.0.3

Bug fix – Prevent max rps from resetting to default value on plugin update

2.0.2

Support WordPress 4.5+
Copy fixes

2.0.1

Bug fix – Set default config on plugin update/activation

2.0.0

MAJOR UPDATE!
* Configure ignore keywords
* Configure delay for prefetching from viewport
* Configure to prefetch on mouse hover only
* Configure maximum requests per second
* Configure mouse hover delay

1.0.5

Bug fix – Prevent wp-admin links from preloading

1.0.4

Bug fix for Safari/iOS Safari

1.0.3

Prevent logout links from preloading

1.0.2

Prevent external links from preloading on hover

1.0.1

Support for Microsoft Edge browser
Prevents current page from preloading

1.0.0

Initial release

Sharp and clean

By delrod on December 15, 2023

Grateful to the developers behind this plugin. It is so clean and lightweight!! and works just as described!!!!

Server Connectivity

By aslam7 on September 28, 2023

Flyingpress failing on server connectivity, had really worst experience on SEO.
Everytime i use flyingpress am having issue with server connectivity, i have checked with my hosting server also, not even single issue. When i disable flyingpress the issue gone.

FlyingPress is awesome

By scottlovig on July 4, 2023

We installed FlyingPress due to it's excellent caching features and quickly found that we were seeing better performance scores than what we could squeeze out of wp-rocket. The few little issues we did run into during setup was quickly addressed by FlyingPress support. This is what a 5 star Wordpress plugin looks like :-)

Flying Pages creates a smile on my face!

By ms100 on May 10, 2023

Although I can not find information why some of the "Ignore keywords" are prefilled (like .webp and the other images), I do really like the Flying Pages plugin!

Like the review titles says, Flying Pages letteraly created a smile on my face.

Thank you for sharing!

Breaks site very often

By edwardsmithjr on April 4, 2023

The latest version of FP is starting to break my site often now. Before, it was a blank white screen; now it's saying 'featured not enabled.' The support is unapologetic

Great Plugin

By frontweb2021 on September 10, 2022

Thanks for this great plugin

Great plugin!

By dbbuda on August 27, 2022

my website was immediately faster after installing this plugin, love it!

Best plugin ever.

By maniehansen on August 13, 2022

I have been creating websites for myself and various people for a while now. As the websites kept growing the internal pages started taking longer to open. I have been thinking of moving my shared hosting to a company that is hosting only on Solid state drives, but it comes with a expensive price tag. Today I've been searching for what I would like a plugin to do and bam, Flying pages matches my search result. I immediately installed it on my 2nd website to test and instantly did what I needed for so long. Its now an hour or so later and installed on all my websites and its just great and works brilliantly with all the different cache plugins on the various sites. A big thank you to the creator/s of this. I don't often see great plugins like this without a price tag. Respect to you.

Pure Afterburner Power!

By Generosus (generosus) on July 10, 2022

I switched from instant.page to this plugin and couldn't believe my eyes. Thanks to this plugin, our website's page loading times are now nearly zero. It's easy to use, it's highly customizable, and gets the job done as advertised. To those who have installed this plugin and don't see immediate results, don't forget to: 1. Delete plugins that perform the same function (e.g., instant.page, quicklinks, etc.). 2. Do not delay nor defer the JS file added by this plugin (flying-pages.min.js). 3. Clear your website's cache in this order: Theme > Cache Plugin > CDN > Browser. 4. Wait 24 hours for your website's cache to build. Voilà. Your website is now equipped with an afterburner!

great plugin

By Ted Slater (tedslater) on May 13, 2022

This is a great plugin. Its functionality should probably just be built into the WordPress core. It's that good.

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