Compare Chrome extensions: FasterWeb vs PageAccel

Stats FasterWeb FasterWeb PageAccel PageAccel
User count 100,000+ 1,000+
Average rating 4.10 4.67
Rating count 179 6
Last updated 2023-12-15 2021-01-29
Size 14.06K 304.13K
Version 23.12.14 1.9.0
Short description
Browse the web faster. Loads streamlined, accelerated, easy-to-use web pages on websites that offer it.
Full summary

FasterWeb uses just-in-time preloading; it preloads a page right before you click on it.

Faster Web works best on pages that are on the same sites. Pages to external sites are still faster but generally not enough to be noticeable.

How it works: Before you click on a link, you hover your mouse over it. When you have hovered for 65 milliseconds there is one chance out of two that you will click, so Faster Web starts preloading at this moment, leaving on average over 300 ms for the page to preload.

Pages that trigger an action (such as logging out or deleting something) are excluded. (FasterWeb won’t preload pages with a “?” in their URL.)

FasterWeb — previously called FasterChrome — is based on instant.page, a library that you can add to your site in just one minute to give it the same speed boost.

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Enable accelerated, streamlined, easy-to-use, faster loading web content on web pages that offer it.

PageAccel automatically detects when pages have alternative, streamlined content available, and switches to use that content automatically. These pages are designed to load quickly and offer a simplified user experience. As a side benefit, for alternative streamlined pages, PageAccel saves bandwidth.

For users who prefer to use the standard (non-accelerated version) of pages on a given website, switching to the standard form is as easy as clicking the PageAccel (lightning) button in the url bar to switch back to the standard pages for that website. Just as easily, users can switch back at any time.

PageAccel is a free, community-driven open source project.


How does this work?

Some websites provide alternative, streamlined versions of their pages called AMP (accelerated mobile pages). These pages are created to load faster and provide simplified content for both desktop and mobile users alike. When PageAccel detects that a page has an AMP version, it switches to use it.

PageAccel does not create any of its content, nor does it alter pages by itself. Any page content that you see when using PageAccel is generated by the page author itself.