Best preload plugins for WordPress
The most popular preload plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Preloader leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of WP Performance Score Booster (10K+) and Safelayout Cute Preloader (10K+). All 41 plugins tagged “preload” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 preload plugins
- 1.
PreloaderThe most installed preload plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 41 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 2.
WP Performance Score Booster10K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 339 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Safelayout Cute Preloader10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 84 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 4.
WP Smart Preloader5K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 25 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 5.
Preload LCP Image3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 5 reviews, updated 6 months ago.
- 6.
Page Loader2K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 8 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 7.
Preload Featured Images1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Preload Images900+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 8 reviews, updated 2 days ago.
- 9.
Oxyplug Preload500+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Nginx Cache Purge Preload200+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
All 41 plugins tagged “preload”

Preloader
#1,405by Alobaidi4 days ago
Lightweight preloader and loading screen for WordPress. Pick a free CSS template or your own GIF or PNG, set it up in 3 steps.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(41)
- Downloads
- 90/day

WP Performance Score Booster
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,792by Dipak Gajjar2 months ago
Make website faster, speed up page load time and improve performance scores in tools like Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, Pingdom, and more.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(339)
- Downloads
- 42/day

Safelayout Cute Preloader
Down in the last 7 days:8#1,955by safelayout7 days ago
Beautiful pure CSS animated preloader for your WordPress website. A highly lightweight, easy-to-use, and powerful site loader.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(84)
- Downloads
- 196/day

WP Smart Preloader
Down in the last 7 days:9#3,108by catchsquare2 years ago
A Plugin to add awesome collection of Loaders and Spinners. Delightful and performance-focused Pure CSS animations.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.4(25)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Preload LCP Image
Down in the last 7 days:3#3,670by Rhys Wynne6 months ago
Allows you to specify on individual pages or posts the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) Image on that page to preload, making the page load quicker.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(5)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Page Loader
Down in the last 7 days:9#4,345by tdevs2 years ago
Page Loader is a free Wordpress plugin to show a loader animation while page is being loaded.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(8)
- Downloads
- 13/day

Preload Featured Images
Up in the last 7 days:15#5,212by WPZOOM2 months ago
Preload Featured Images automatically in posts to increase the PageSpeed Score.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Preload Images
Down in the last 7 days:2#7,031by Ravikumar Patel2 days ago
Preload or prefetch images, site-wide or per page, for a faster page loading experience.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.6(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Oxyplug Preload
Down in the last 7 days:17#8,840by Oxyplug Team2 months ago
Preload featured images to improve the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and to get a better Core Web Vital (CWV) score on Google's Lighthouse.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Nginx Cache Purge Preload
Up in the last 7 days:25#11,700by Hasan CALISIR1 month ago
Nginx cache purge and preload for WordPress (FastCGI, Proxy, SCGI, uWSGI), plus a live Fail2Ban dashboard with attack maps and abuse reports.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Easy Lite Preloader
Down in the last 7 days:2#12,299by Jerome Angeles5 years ago
Fully customizable, responsive, lightweight preloader.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Loading Bar
Up in the last 7 days:57#12,757by Alobaidi10 years ago
Add loading bar to your website easily, like youtube loading bar! just one click and custom loading bar color and responsive.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.9(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Better Resource Hints
Up in the last 7 days:17#12,985by Alex MacArthur7 years ago
Better Resource Hints will make your WordPress site or application faster and generally more performant by intelligently leveraging resource hints lik …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Preloader
Up in the last 7 days:134#13,150by forgeo.dev5 months ago
A simple, responsive and customizable WordPress preloader with CSS spinners, logo, progress bar, gradient backgrounds, exit animations and more.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

ABCode Cache Warmer
Up in the last 7 days:1,096#15,074by Ash Brentnall | ABCode2 months ago
Automatic cache warmer and preloader: rebuilds your page cache after every purge, in parallel, and shows exactly which URLs were cached.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Super Preloader for Cloudflare
Down in the last 7 days:204#15,187by WP Fix Fast7 days ago
Preload your sitemap URLs into multiple Cloudflare edge locations using proxies and a custom Cloudflare Worker.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Preload Fullpage Cache
Up in the last 7 days:926#15,763by Pothi Kalimuthu2 months ago
Preloads any new or recently updated post into fullpage cache. Requires a fullpage caching layer or plugin, such as Varnish or WP Super Cache.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Custom Preloader
Down in the last 7 days:56#16,214by Rajan Gupta1 year ago
Add preloader to your website easily, compatible with all major browsers.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Warmer
Up in the last 7 days:721#17,197by Atakan Oz5 months ago
Warm your WordPress cache with scheduled crawling, cache preloading, URL source control, logs, diagnostics, and WP-CLI.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.3(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Prerender and Prefetch
Down in the last 7 days:13#19,923by Francisco Torres14 years ago
Puts Prerender and Prefetch tag in the page. Allowing compatible navigators to do a pre-load of the page you figure the visitor is going to go.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Image Preloading
Up in the last 7 days:203#20,118by tiptinker7 months ago
Modern image preloading/prefetching plugin for WordPress to improve page loading performance.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ultimate WordPress Preloader
Down in the last 7 days:365#22,588by MagniumThemes7 years ago
Add CSS3 crossbrowser animated preloader to your site. Live preloader customizer. Work with ANY theme!
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 2.9(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Preload Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:355#23,363by Umut2 years ago
Preload Featured Image automatically in posts to increase the PageSpeed Score.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Preloadify
Up in the last 7 days:213#23,674by stevendiai1 year ago
A customizable loading screen plugin with logo, animations, color options, preview, and instant save. Improve UX with style.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Page Loading Animation
#26,729by Mehedi Hasan kanon4 years ago
Preloader Animation plugin is very helpful for you if you find an animation add before loading your website. Here you can add animation easily before …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cache Autopilot
Down in the last 7 days:205#29,460by ekestotoday
Automatically refreshes affected cached pages after WordPress changes — without manual cache clearing.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Quick Preloader
#31,782by Sumon Hasan10 years ago
This plugin will enable custom background color and custom preloader image url in your wordpress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Beky Cache Pilot
#32,492by orthoplex1 month ago
Compatibility-first WordPress performance for Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Beaver Builder, and WooCommerce — fast sites that do not break your builder.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fast Forward
Up in the last 7 days:3,110#35,138by Albert Bertilsson14 years ago
Help browsers preload content to speed up the next page view.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Oxyplug Image
Up in the last 7 days:3,879#36,634by Oxyplug Team11 months ago
Oxyplug Image is a WordPress.org plugin that optimize your site by compressing your images, creating 1X, 2X, 2.8X and 3x images and more...
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Preload Everything
#40,587by Sajjad Hossain Sagor5 months ago
Fasten Your Website Loading Speed By Preloading Internal Pages Ahead Of The Time For Your Visitors.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Preload & Pjax Faster Page Load
Down in the last 7 days:3,549#40,778by falsandtru12 years ago
About 0.5 seconds faster page load of the site, even after you've taken the various means for faster site, without making any changes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH HTTP/2 Server Push
Up in the last 7 days:5,085#41,518by shawfactor9 years ago
Does HTTP/2 Server Push for JavaScript and CSS resources properly.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Cache Shark
#50,046by Md Rabiul1 day ago
Fast, free page caching for WordPress with automatic cache clearing and background preloading from your sitemap.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 107/day

Smooth Preloader
Up in the last 7 days:20,150#50,846by Mizanur Rahaman1 year ago
Smooth Preloader is a lightweight plugin that adds a visually appealing preloader animation to your WordPress website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CacheBoost Warmer
Up in the last 7 days:13,278#54,807by nhodin2 days ago
Re-warms your pages automatically after every cache purge, from the regions your visitors are in. Works with WP Rocket, LiteSpeed and any CDN.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Codelab42 Cache Warming Connect
Up in the last 7 days:3,296#65,095by codelab4225 days ago
Integrates your site with cache-warmer.com. Clearing your cache or publishing content automatically schedules a cache warming run.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

VMV Preloader
Down in the last 7 days:6,999#71,309by Aleksandr Zidyganov3 years ago
The first modern preloader as animation handwriting text SVG! 11 variants of preloader.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PageFlash
#71,615by Aminul Islam4 months ago
Preload pages intelligently to boost site speed and enhance user experience by loading pages before users click, ensuring instant page transitions.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Quikc
Down in the last 7 days:6,580#73,415by r4huldev243 months ago
A self-learning full-page cache: it watches real traffic, keeps hot URLs alive longer, preloads them first, and skips cart/checkout/account.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Peakspire Font Loading Optimizer
#74,082by PeakSpiretoday
Speed up WordPress font loading: preloads self-hosted WOFF2 fonts, adds font-display swap, and removes render-blocking requests for faster LCP.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- –