Speculative Loading is coming to WordPress in 6.8, unlocking huge potential to boost your site's performance.
The dev note explains how you can prepare your WordPress plugins for the new feature and how you can get the most out of it for your site:
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Speculative Loading in 6.8
WordPress 6.8 introduces speculative loading, which can lead to near-instant page load times by loading URLs before the user navigates to them. The feature relies on the Speculation Rules API, a we…