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<p>Enhance your website’s user experience and seo ranking by lazy loading images.</p>
<h3>What is lazy loading?</h3>
<p><em>«Lazy loading is a technique that defers loading of non-critical resources at page load time. Instead, these non-critical resources are loaded at the moment of need.»</em><br />
– Jeremy Wagner, Google Developer</p>
<p>In other words:<br />
Lazy loading images makes them being loaded asynchronously which makes it possible to load them conditionally (e.g. when they are within the visitors’s viewport). In doing so, you will prevent your visitors from downloading images they would never see anyway.</p>
<h3>What are the advantages?</h3>
<p>The main advantages for your visitors are:</p>
<h4>1. Reduced page load time</h4>
<p>Having to initially load less resources, naturally reduces the loading duration. This will be more noticeable the more images you have on your website and may have a critical impact on your visitors’s experience as well as your SEO ranking.</p>
<h4>2. Smaller page size</h4>
<p>It’s possible that your visitors will not scroll down to the very bottom of the page and therefore not load all images. Having to load a few images less might not be relevant on unlimited connections. For visitors browsing your website on limited plans however, you’ll prevent them from wasting their data allowances. Again, this is a factor influencing your SEO ranking.</p>
<h3>Browser support</h3>
<p>Be Lazy uses a polyfill for browsers not supporting the IntersectionObserver API by default. As a result, pretty much any browser is supported.</p>
<p>✔ Google Chrome<br />
✔ Mozilla Firefox<br />
✔ Opera<br />
✔ Microsoft Edge<br />
✔ Microsoft Internet Explorer (7+)<br />
✔ Safari (6+)<br />
✔ Android Browser (4.4+)</p>


Be Lazy

Enhance your website's user experience and seo ranking by lazy loading images.

Felix Arntz

Google

<p>Lazy-loads media using the native browser feature. <a href="https://web.dev/native-lazy-loading" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about the new <code>loading</code> attribute</a> or <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/44427" rel="nofollow ugc">view the WordPress core ticket</a> where inclusion of a similar implementation in WordPress core itself is being discussed.</p>
<p>If the <code>loading</code> attribute is not supported by the browser, the plugin falls back to a JavaScript solution based on <code>IntersectionObserver</code>. For the case that JavaScript is disabled, but the <code>loading</code> attribute <em>is</em> supported by the browser, a <code>noscript</code> variant of the respective element will be added that also includes the <code>loading</code> attribute without any further changes.</p>
<h4>“Native” means “Fast”</h4>
<p>If you have found your way over here, you are probably aware of how crucial performance is for a website’s user experience and success. You might also know that lazy-loading is a key feature to improve said performance. However, the solutions for lazy-loading so far still added a bit of overhead themselves, since they relied on loading, parsing and running custom JavaScript logic, that may be more or less heavy on performance.</p>
<p>This plugin largely does away with this pattern. It relies on the new <a href="https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3752" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>loading</code></a> attribute, which makes lazy-loading a native browser functionality. The attribute is already supported by Chrome, and will be rolled out to other browsers over time. The solution being “native” means that it does not rely on custom JavaScript logic, and thus is more lightweight. And “more lightweight” means “faster”.</p>
<p>Last but not least, a neat thing to keep in mind is that this plugin will essentially improve itself over time, as more browsers roll out support for the <code>loading</code> attribute.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Just activate the plugin, and all your images and iframes in post content will be loaded lazily.</p>
<h3>Credit</h3>
<p>This plugin is partly based on logic from <a href="https://github.com/wprig/wprig/blob/v2.0/inc/Lazyload/Component.php" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Rig</a> as well as recommendations from <a href="https://web.dev/native-lazy-loading" rel="nofollow ugc">web.dev</a> and <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/lazy-loading-guidance/images-and-video/" rel="nofollow ugc">developers.google.com</a>.</p>


Native Lazyload

Was using regular lazy load plugins, but this thing takes it up a notch. Not just because of the native lazy load, which in itself is absolutely brilliant an an idea whose time had come, but I just like it that it doens't clutter the backend with unnecessary pages. Does what it says. Activate and forget.

Didn't even know I needed this till I found it

Im really happy that Google is creating plugins for our projects BUT keep them up-to-date please... you're the God of the internet, a trillion dollar company.


Google update your products PLEASE

Lazy-loads media using the native browser feature.

Be Lazy vs Native Lazyload