by Gijo Varghese 4.9 (79 reviews)

Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience

Name: Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience
Rating: 4.9 (79 reviews)
Author: Gijo Varghese

Preload pages intelligently to boost site speed and enhance user experience by loading pages before users click, ensuring instant page transitions.

Flying Pages ranks #1,378 among WordPress.org plugins with 20,000+ active installations, is #64 of 1,518 in the Performance category, a 4.9/5 rating from 79 reviews, and was last updated May 20, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7 (Current: 7.1)

v2.4.7 Current Version v2.4.7

Updated 3 months ago Last Update on 20 May, 2026

Refreshed 8 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#64 of 1,518 in Performance Top 5% by installs Downloads -11.8% this week

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Active Installs

20K+

-9.9%

KW Avg Position

53.4

0.2 worse

Downloads

242.3K

+37 today

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Rating

98%

Review 4.9 out of 5

4.9 (79 reviews)

Next Milestone 30K

Total Progress 20.5%

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.4.7
Last Updated: May 20, 2026
Requires WP: 4.5+
Tested Up To: 7
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: Gijo Varghese

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9
Reviews: 79
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Flying Pages is for WordPress site owners who want faster page navigation for their visitors. It preloads pages before users click on them by detecting links in the viewport or on hover, so pages load instantly while avoiding excessive server load.

Preloads pages in the viewport
Preloads pages on mouse hover
Limits preloads per second
Stops preloading if server is busy
Detects slow connection or data-saver
Tiny JavaScript code (1KB gzipped)
In-built preload queue

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience

Flying Pages starts preloading when all other resources have completed downloading and browser has become idle. It will not affect the TTFB or First Contentful Paint or Time to Interactive. If you’re worried about the fully loaded time in GTmetrix, set the "Delay to start preloading" to a higher number in settings or set it to preload only on mouse hover.

See the video and you'll find 'prefetch cache' (test it from an incognito window if you've enabled 'Disable for logged in admins') I’m not seeing any improvements in GTmetrix/Pingdom/Google PageSpeed Insights Flying Pages preload links after the website is loaded and only improves the speed on clicking links. It doesn’t help you to speed up the initial load.

Every time a page/link is preloaded, it executes some PHP code and MySQL queries which is resource-intensive. So it's highly recommended to use a cache plugin like FlyingPress.

Flying Pages only downloads the HTML content. It doesn't execute any code inside it. So it will not affect Google Analytics or similar scripts.

It's mostly videos and images that consume 80% of the bandwidth. Flying Pages only preloads HTML pages (which is usually <30KB) and doesn't download any resources inside it (like images, css, js). Installing Flying Pages won't increase your bandwidth usage not even by 5%.

In short, yes. But you can configure Flying Pages to limit the number of preloads per second or preload only on mouse hover which reduces the server load. Also, make sure to use a good cache plugin like FlyingPress. This will reduce server load dramatically.

Please create a support request in the official support forum. You can also get help from WP Speed Matters' Facebook group.