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Flying Pages

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

by Gijo Varghese · WordPress.org page · Website

v2.4.7 Tested up to WP 7.0.4 PHP 5.6+

Flying Pages has 20,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 251,462 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on May 20, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.

Flying Pages at a glance

Active installs
20,000+
Total downloads
251,462
Downloads, last 30 days
–
available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
–
tracking since September 4, 2026

Is Flying Pages well maintained?

Support threads resolved
No open threads
nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum
WordPress compatibility
Behind
tested up to WordPress 7.0.4, not yet with the current 7.1
One-star reviews
1%
1 of 79 reviews on WordPress.org

Features

The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.

  • Preload pages in the viewport – Detect links within the viewport (current viewing area) using ‘Intersection Observer’ and tells the browser to preload them…
  • Preload pages on mouse hover – On hovering links, if it’s not preloaded yet using above ‘viewport’, then Flying Pages will prefetch them instantly (similar to…
  • Limits the number of preloads per second – If your page has too many links, prefetching all at the same time will cause the server to crash or slow down the…
  • Stops preloading if the server is busy – In case the server starts to respond slowly or return errors, preloading will be stopped to reduce the server load
  • Understands user’s connection and preferences – Checks if the user is on a slow connection like 2G or has enabled data-saver. Flying Pages won’t preload…

Flying Pages reviews and ratings

79 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews
4.9 out of 5

79 reviews

5★
77
4★
0
3★
0
2★
1
1★
1

  • not as expected

    Sorry, but the home page is not purged when articles are being published and I have proven that to your "support" which obviously blames Cloudflare Enterprise and 300$ monthly hosting companies.

    Cosmin T.

  • Sharp and clean

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

    delrod

  • Server Connectivity

    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.

    aslam7

  • FlyingPress is awesome

    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 :-)

    scottlovig

  • Flying Pages creates a smile on my face!

    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!

    ms100

  • Breaks site very often

    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

    edwardsmithjr

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Details

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

The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.

Tags

  • Fast
  • optimization
  • performance
  • prefetch
  • speed

More from Gijo Varghese

Version
2.4.7
Last updated
May 20, 2026
First published
Aug 26, 2019
Requires WordPress
4.5
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
5.6
Pricing
Free on WordPress.org

Flying Pages FAQ

What does Flying Pages do?

According to its WordPress.org readme, Flying Pages offers Preload pages in the viewport – Detect links within the viewport (current viewing area) using ‘Intersection Observer’ and tells the browser to preload them, Preload pages on mouse hover – On hovering links, if it’s not preloaded yet using above ‘viewport’, then Flying Pages will prefetch them instantly (similar to, Limits the number of preloads per second – If your page has too many links, prefetching all at the same time will cause the server to crash or slow down the, Stops preloading if the server is busy – In case the server starts to respond slowly or return errors, preloading will be stopped to reduce the server load and Understands user’s connection and preferences – Checks if the user is on a slow connection like 2G or has enabled data-saver. Flying Pages won’t preload.

How many active installs does Flying Pages have?

WordPress.org reports 20,000+ active installs for Flying Pages as of September 7, 2026.

Is Flying Pages still maintained?

Yes. The last release was on May 20, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.

Is Flying Pages free?

Flying Pages is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.