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Life & fun · January 8, 2014

Make your website’s links instant

InstantClick makes following links in your website instant.

Make your website’s links instant launched on January 8, 2014 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

InstantClick is a JavaScript library that dramatically speeds up your website, making navigation effectively instant in most cases. 25 December: version 3.1 is here, with support for dynamically added links! Download Changelog Despite huge bandwidth increases, websites don’t get much faster. This is because the biggest bottleneck in loading web pages is latency. 1 Latency is inevitable with today’s internet architecture so InstantClick cheats by preloading links you are likely to click on. Before visitors click on a link, they hover over that link. Between these two events, 200 ms to 300 ms usually pass by ( test yourself here ). InstantClick makes use of that time to preload the page, so…from instantclick.io

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