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

by Gijo Varghese · 20,000+ active installs · Checked 3 Nov 2026
Healthy

Healthy: Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience is maintained, has no open risk signals and no unpatched vulnerabilities.

87/ 100 Canary Score
Sub-scores for Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience
Ownership100
Maintenance85
Security100
Support70
Reputation70

How the score works

Active signals

Facts we detected, with links to the source.

No open risk signals. Signals appear here when we detect an ownership change, closure, vulnerability or decline.

Ownership timeline

Who commits to the plugin's code on wordpress.org, over time.

Committers and their active periods
plugin-master25 Aug 2019 to 25 Aug 2019, 1 commits
gijo26 Aug 2019 to 20 May 2026, 108 commits

2 committers recorded. No ownership changes recorded since 3 Nov 2026.

Maintenance

Last release
6 months ago
Releases, 24 months
1
Tested up to
7.0 vs 7.1
Requires PHP
5.6 supported 8.2+
Releases per quarter for Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience
Q1 20240
Q2 20240
Q3 20240
Q4 20240
Q1 20251
Q2 20250
Q3 20250
Q4 20250
Q1 20260
Q2 20260
Q3 20260
Q4 20260

Last release 20 May 2026. Tested up to 7.0, 1 major version behind WordPress 7.1.

Support

Support history appears after our first snapshots of the forum counts.

Security record

No published vulnerabilities on record for this plugin.

Source: Wordfence Intelligence.

Reputation

Average rating fell from 5.0 to 2.0 between Q4 2023 and Q2 2025.

Rating distribution
5 star77
4 star0
3 star0
2 star1
1 star1
Latest low reviews

Momentum

20,000+ active installs. History builds with each weekly snapshot.

Weekly downloads, last 27 weeks
Weekly downloads for Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience
4 May 2026278
11 May 2026555
18 May 2026571
25 May 2026457
1 Jun 2026562
8 Jun 2026418
15 Jun 2026278
22 Jun 2026307
29 Jun 2026248
6 Jul 2026335
13 Jul 2026310
20 Jul 2026378
27 Jul 2026330
3 Aug 2026469
10 Aug 2026294
17 Aug 2026349
24 Aug 2026332
31 Aug 2026293
7 Sep 2026295
14 Sep 2026314
21 Sep 2026330
28 Sep 2026377
5 Oct 2026352
12 Oct 2026316
19 Oct 2026450
26 Oct 2026380
2 Nov 202659

Weekly downloads over the last 4 weeks are 16% below the 27-week average.

Healthier alternatives

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Facts

Version2.4.7
AuthorGijo Varghese
Added26 Aug 2019
Last updated20 May 2026
Active installs20,000+
Requires WordPress4.5
Tested up to7.0.8
Requires PHP5.6
CategoryPerformance & Optimization > Caching Solutions
TagsFast, speed, prefetch, performance, optimization

Other plugins by this author: Flying Scripts: Delay JavaScript to Improve Site Speed & Performance, Swap Google Fonts Display: Improve Font Rendering & Performance, Flying Analytics: Self-Host Google Analytics v4 with Speed Optimization, Flying Images: Optimize and Lazy Load Images for Faster Page Speed, Flying Fonts: Remove Google Fonts & Use System Fonts for Faster Performance

Questions

Is Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience still maintained?

Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience was last updated on 20 May 2026. Its Canary status is Healthy.

Is Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience safe?

Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience has no open unpatched vulnerabilities on record. 0 vulnerabilities were published in the last 24 months. Its Canary status is Healthy.

Who owns Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience?

The wordpress.org author is Gijo Varghese. Recent committers: gijo, plugin-master. We have recorded no ownership change.

What can I use instead of Flying Pages: Preload Pages for Faster Navigation & Improved User Experience?

Plugins in the same category with a higher Canary Score: Page Optimize, Jetpack Boost - Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS, Performance Lab, Speculative Loading, Optimization Detective.

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