Companies Using Flying Pages

Two groups. WordPress sites install the free plugin, including the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the Florida Department of Health and Budimex. Shopify stores get the same code inside Avada's or Tapita's SEO app, including Pepstores; in our 14 November 2026 sample, 17 of 40 domains were such stores. 62.76% of matched companies have 1 to 10 employees.

We count 14,652 domains running Flying Pages in our November 2026 crawl, after removing 144 for-sale pages, alias and duplicate domains, copied sites and closed stores. They are domains, not plugin users: many are Shopify stores whose SEO app bundles the code. WordPress.org lists 20,000+ active installations of the plugin. Since 16 March 2026, 5,347 domains dropped it.

Flying Pages holds 0.11% of Performance Optimization at TechnologyChecker.io, 12th of 45 rows. Priority Hints leads with 91.95%, but it's a browser attribute, not a product. Autoptimize (236,271 domains) and WP Fastest Cache (207,566) are much larger free plugins, though they minify and cache rather than preload. FlyingPress, from the same developer, is 15th.

For preloading itself, the plugin's own listing compares it with Instant.page, which prefetches on hover, and Quicklink, which prefetches links in view; Flying Pages does both. On WordPress, the developer's paid FlyingPress includes link preloading with page caching. Plugins such as Autoptimize and WP Fastest Cache do other speed jobs and are often run alongside it.

The United States, with 1,806 of the 7,050 companies we matched, then the United Kingdom (630), India (473), Germany (375) and Australia (351). The US, UK, Australia and Canada hold 43.21% of matched companies. Shopify stores add to several countries' counts, such as Euronics India, which gets the code from Avada's SEO app.

Very small ones, mostly. 62.76% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees and 24.14% have 11 to 50. 67 have more than 1,000 staff, among them Pepstores, Budimex and NIPSEA Group, and the Florida Department of Health runs it on its main site. That's more micro than FlyingPress's base, where 59.5% have 1 to 10.

Fairly young. Of matched companies with a founding year, 39.45% started in the 2010s, 22.73% in the 2020s and 16.55% in the 2000s, so 62.18% were founded in 2010 or later. The young end matches the Shopify stores on this list. Older users such as Prym, founded in 1530, and Budimex run the WordPress plugin.

On our data: a company with 1 to 10 staff, founded in the 2010s, in retail, fashion or construction, based in the US, UK, India or Germany, running either a WordPress site with the free plugin or a Shopify store with Avada's or Tapita's SEO app. Cloudflare fronts 64.78% of the domains.

It preloads pages before a visitor clicks. Per its WordPress.org listing, it injects about 1KB of gzipped JavaScript, waits until the browser is idle, then prefetches links in the viewport and on mouse hover. It limits preloads to 3 per second by default, stops if the server slows down, and skips preloading on slow connections or data-saver mode.

Yes. The plugin is free on WordPress.org, at version 2.4.7 (updated 20 May 2026) with 20,000+ active installations and 79 ratings when we read it on 14 November 2026. The underlying script is open source under the ISC licence on GitHub, which is why Shopify apps can ship their own copies of it.

No, but they come from the same developer: the Flying Pages listing names FlyingPress among "our premium products". Flying Pages is free and only preloads links. FlyingPress is a paid caching and optimisation plugin, from $59 a year for one site, that includes link preloading. Our crawl ranks Flying Pages 12th and FlyingPress 15th in Performance Optimization.

Yes, somewhat. Its WordPress.org FAQ says every preload runs PHP and database queries, so it limits preloads per second and can be set to preload on hover only. It recommends running a cache plugin alongside it, and names FlyingPress, the same developer's paid plugin, as one.

No. Its FAQ says it starts preloading only after the page has loaded and the browser is idle, so it won't change time to first byte or first contentful paint, and scores in GTmetrix or PageSpeed Insights won't improve. It speeds up the next page a visitor clicks to, because that page is already in the browser's prefetch cache.

Because two Shopify SEO apps bundle its code. In our 14 November 2026 sample, Avada AI SEO Image Optimizer loaded a copy named flying-pages.js on 9 stores and Tapita AI SEO Optimizer, Speed shipped it as instantpage.js on 8. Both define the flyingPages function, so the store runs Flying Pages without the owner installing it directly.