Best speculation rules plugins for WordPress
The most popular speculation rules 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 PrerenderX (fewer than 10). All 2 plugins tagged “speculation rules” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 speculation rules plugins
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Speculative LoadingThe most installed speculation rules plugin, with 70K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 18 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
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PrerenderXFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 2 plugins tagged “speculation rules”
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
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