Resource prioritization – practical application tips for WordPress
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 5:11 am
By prioritizing resources and connection setups, you can squeeze a few more crucial milliseconds out of many websites. I've already explained the individual concepts and their basic syntax in the OMT magazine – more detailed information on how they work can be found here. Here, we'll explore these concepts in practical application within WordPress . In addition to template modifications, useful plugins for this topic are presented at the end of the article.
Prefetching and prerendering
Prefetching loads resources as soon as the browser has finished loading the visible guatemala phone number data content. Prerendering goes a step further and not only loads the resources, but also renders the targeted page completely in a hidden tab, so that it can be accessed without delay if the process was completed before the corresponding link was clicked. Since prerendering is currently only supported by Chrome, you shouldn't rely exclusively on it – it's convenient to combine both commands into one. The syntax for both methods combined is:
It's common practice to link related or adjacent articles at the end of a post. If these links are set in the theme's single post view (single.php), you can preload them using the following function in functions.php via prefetching (almost all browsers) / prerendering (Chrome) :
Prefetching and prerendering
Prefetching loads resources as soon as the browser has finished loading the visible guatemala phone number data content. Prerendering goes a step further and not only loads the resources, but also renders the targeted page completely in a hidden tab, so that it can be accessed without delay if the process was completed before the corresponding link was clicked. Since prerendering is currently only supported by Chrome, you shouldn't rely exclusively on it – it's convenient to combine both commands into one. The syntax for both methods combined is:
It's common practice to link related or adjacent articles at the end of a post. If these links are set in the theme's single post view (single.php), you can preload them using the following function in functions.php via prefetching (almost all browsers) / prerendering (Chrome) :