Best prerender plugins for WordPress
The most popular prerender plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Speculative Loading leads with 70K+ active installs, ahead of Oxyplug Prefetch & Prerender (100+) and Prerender Plugin (70+). All 11 plugins tagged “prerender” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 prerender plugins
- 1.
Speculative LoadingThe most installed prerender plugin, with 70K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 18 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Oxyplug Prefetch & Prerender100+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Prerender Plugin70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 4.
Prerender and Prefetch60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
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LH Prefetch and Render10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 6.
Fast Forward10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
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EVE Dynamic Prerender10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
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wuk.ch DNS-Prefetch / Prerender10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 9.
Behavior Flow10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 10.
PrerenderXFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 11 plugins tagged “prerender”
Speculative Loading
Down in the last 7 days:1#615by WordPress Performance Team2 months ago
Enables browsers to speculatively prerender or prefetch pages to achieve near-instant loads based on user interaction.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 5.0(18)
- Downloads
- 541/day
Oxyplug Prefetch & Prerender
Up in the last 7 days:22#14,229by Oxyplug Team2 months ago
Faster loading next pages by prerendering/prefetching all links a user hovers or addresses you prefer. It improves UX and Core Web Vitals score.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Prerender Plugin
Down in the last 7 days:92#18,496by hekkup6 years ago
Enable Googlebots to Render Your Site
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Prerender and Prefetch
Down in the last 7 days:32#19,921by 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
LH Prefetch and Render
Up in the last 7 days:8,398#35,279by shawfactor9 years ago
A simple yet effective way of setting which pages to prefetch and prerender on your site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fast Forward
#36,116by Albert Bertilsson14 years ago
Help browsers preload content to speed up the next page view.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
EVE Dynamic Prerender
Up in the last 7 days:1,443#42,964by gsacheli7 years ago
An easy and powerful plugin to implement a real dynamic Prerender Meta Tag inside the head section of the HTML document. This version use AJAX so it w …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
wuk.ch DNS-Prefetch / Prerender
Down in the last 7 days:6,004#45,006by Stefan M.9 years ago
Adds dns-prefetch and prerender functionalities on WordPress for better PageSpeed.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Behavior Flow
Down in the last 7 days:3,641#47,435by Julien Liabeuf11 years ago
Better site performance and increased conversion rates using visitors' behavior flow
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PrerenderX
Down in the last 7 days:17,910#67,426by Saeed Tosifyan25 days ago
Next-generation browser preloading and speculation rules control suite with zero external JavaScript overhead.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Speculative Page Loader
Down in the last 7 days:22,568#73,056by WeblineIndia1 year ago
Improve Core Web Vitals and SEO with speculative loading. This plugin prefetches and prerenders web pages to enable near-instant loads and faster perf …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day