Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
Make your site’s pages instant in 1 minute and improve your conversion rate by 1%.
Make your site’s pages instant in one minute launched on February 9, 2019 with 1,214 votes, #1 of 3,290 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
In plain words
Instant.page is a tool that preloads web pages before users click on them, making sites feel faster to visitors. It works by detecting when someone is about to click a link and loading that page in the background, reducing perceived load time. The tool is designed for website owners who want to improve their site's performance and user experience without requiring major technical changes. It can be implemented in about a minute by adding a single line of code to a website.
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From the sources
Amazon and others found that removing 100 milliseconds of latency improves sales by 1% . But latency on the web is hard to overcome. Amazon (PowerPoint, slide #15) : 100 ms of latency resulted in 1% less sales. Walmart (slide #46) : a 100 ms improvement brought up to 1% incremental revenue. Mozilla : Shaving 2.2 seconds off page load time increased downloads by 15.4%. instant.page uses just-in-time preloading — it preloads a page right before a user clicks on it. Before a user clicks on a link, they hover their mouse over that link. When a user has hovered for 65 ms there is one chance out of two that they will click on that link, so instant.page starts preloading at this moment, leaving on…from instant.page
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