Page Preload for Magento 2

Actions taking less than 100ms are perceived as "Instant" by the human brain.

So how about reducing the TTFB for your Magento 2 to below 100ms or even to 0ms?

With JaJuMa Page Preload you can now get there, make your pages feel instant for your customers, no matter the speed and response time of your server, the distance between your server and the customer, and even on 3G.

The idea of preloading/prefetching pages is actually nothing new. Back in the old days when the internet was still slow, there were first attempts in making surfing the web faster by applying preloading.

Today, page speed is a SEO ranking factor and still a challenge for every Magento 2 store. Now more than ever, with the new Core Web Vitals, performance and usability as ranking factors. Everyone is trying to scrape off the last milliseconds from page load times to improve the user experience and ultimately increase the conversion rate.
So this old idea is back and with JaJuMa Page Preload now also available for Magento 2.

Ready to learn more on how this works and allows you to improve your customer's shopping experience with faster subsequent page loads?

Why Should I Use Page Preloading?

Never hear about "Page Preloading" or prefetching? No surprise, most page speed optimization guides do not mention this and it's still rather unknown within the Magento world and community. So why should you use it in your Magento store?
Short answer: Because it's a great opportunity to speed up your site.

Being a very small light-weight and drop-in solution, not affecting how your store works, not interfering with your other performance optimizations, and no conflicts with your customizations and being flexibly adjustable to your individual situation, its a no-brainer chance to speed-up your Magento 2 store!

We have been using pre-loading on our website since years, with no issues at all, but great results.
Also Google is backing the idea and concept behind page preloading/prefetching with an own solution named "Quicklink".
Which is similar, but less flexible and less suitable for e-commerce sites compared to JaJuMa Page Preload which is based on "Instant.Page", customized and extended specifically for Magento 2.

How it works

Configure Preload Scope & Preload Cache Control (TTL)

JaJuMa Page Preload not only allows control of preload intensity but also the scope where preloading will be used and applied.
Via blacklist or whitelist it can be defined which links should be preloaded or which links should be excluded from preloading. 

This is useful for e. g. following cases:

• Reduce preload request by avoiding unnecessary preloads
  (for example with layered navigation, that has many links, most of them likely not visited by a customer)
• Preload only important pages
  (for example focus on only category pages and/or product pages)
• Exclude pages from preload that should never be cached
  (for example Cart, Checkout, Customer Account)
• Exclude links from preloading that trigger an action
  (for example Customer Logout Link :-) )

Additionally you can also configure the Cache-TTL (Time-To-Live) for preloaded content. Follow this time the browser will keep any preloaded content in the cache and use it when the customer visits this preloaded content instead of loading it from your server.