We implemented speculative prerendering to speed up load times in the builder, and the results are going to blow you away. We want the Divi 5 building experience to be fast, faster than any other builder.
The only thing faster than fast is instant, and with speculative prerendering, that’s exactly what you get. Instant load times when entering, exiting, and switching pages in the builder.
For Divi Pros who spend all day bouncing in and out of the builder, this quality-of-life improvement really adds up.
There’s much to explore, so let me jump into the builder and give you the full, off-the-cuff tour. 👇
Speculative Prerendering
⚠️ Note: The speculation API is supported by Chromium browsers, such as Chrome, Edge, Opera, and many others. Safari and Firefox have not implemented it yet. Unfortunately, users of those browsers will have to wait to benefit from this update.
What is speculative prerendering? Long story short: Divi 5 predicts where you are navigating to based on your mouse movements, and prerenders the destination before you click. By the time you click, the page will already be fully loaded. From your perspective, the page loads instantly because it has already finished loading in the background.
Divi only prerenders destinations within its own domain. You’ll notice instant load times when entering, exiting, and switching to different pages in the builder. Since Divi owns the entire editing experience, we can be “greedy” with prerenders since there are so few entry and exit points. If you spend your time in the builder and use the Page Manager and Command Center to navigate, your entire website-building experience becomes instant!
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