Gunjan Jaswaal

<p>FetchPriority Featured Image is a lightweight plugin that automatically adds the <code>fetchpriority="high"</code> attribute to featured images on your WordPress site. This helps browsers prioritize the loading of these important images, improving your site’s performance and Core Web Vitals scores.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically adds <code>fetchpriority="high"</code> to featured images</li>
<li>Intelligently applies the attribute only where it matters most:
<ul>
<li>On single posts and pages</li>
<li>On the first post of archive pages, blog home, and search results</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Zero configuration required – install and activate</li>
<li>No settings page to keep things simple and lightweight</li>
<li>Compatible with most WordPress themes</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why Use FetchPriority?</h4>
<p>The <code>fetchpriority</code> attribute is a modern web standard that tells browsers which images should be prioritized during page load. By marking featured images as high priority, you can improve:</p>
<ul>
<li>Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) scores</li>
<li>User experience with faster loading of important images</li>
<li>Overall page performance</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developer-Friendly</h4>
<p>The plugin uses WordPress’s native filters and doesn’t modify your database or image files.</p>


FetchPriority Featured Image

Automatically adds fetchpriority="high" attribute to featured images to improve page loading performance and Core Web Vitals.

WordPress.org

<p>This plugin adds the <code>fetchpriority="high"</code> attribute to the image that is most likely the LCP image for the current response, improving LCP performance by telling the browser to prioritize that image. The LCP image detection directly relies on the existing WordPress core heuristics that determine whether to not lazy-load an image. The only difference is that, while multiple images may not be lazy-loaded, only a single image will be annotated with <code>fetchpriority="high"</code>.</p>


Fetchpriority

Adds a fetchpriority hint for the primary content image on the page to load faster.

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