kevinweber

<p>This plugin improves page load time and increases your Google PageSpeed Score. It works with oEmbed and replaces embedded Youtube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image.<br />
By loading videos only when the user clicks on the preview image, no unnecessary JavaScript is loaded. Especially on sites with many embedded videos this will make your visitors happy. Additionally, all Youtube videos are loaded in a privacy-enhanced mode using the “https://www.youtube-nocookie.com” embed URL.</p>
<p>This plugin works for your existing YouTube and Vimeo blocks. No vendor lock-in and no custom shortcodes: Easily turn the plugin on and off anytime.</p>
<p>Plugin review with speed test results <a href="https://wptavern.com/speed-up-wordpress-with-lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">on WP Tavern</a>.<br />
Developers can contribute <a href="https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">on Github</a>.<br />
More about the author: <a href="https://www.kweber.com" rel="nofollow ugc">on kweber.com</a>.</p>
<h4>Some additional features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display video titles on preview images</li>
<li>Display privacy disclaimer on top of preview images (e.g. for GDPR compliance)</li>
<li>Pre-roll and post-roll advertisements: Convert all videos into a playlist and automatically add your corporate video, product teaser or another video advertisement to every video. (Great for branding and video ads!)</li>
<li>Hide annotations such as “subscribe to channel” to avoid distractions</li>
<li>Add custom CSS via the plugin’s admin panel</li>
<li>Choose custom colour for your Vimeo player</li>
<li>Hide controls from Youtube player</li>
<li>Hide information like the video title and uploader when the video starts playing</li>
<li>Even lazy load videos in text widgets (Youtube only)</li>
<li>Choose between thumbnail sizes (standard or cover)</li>
<li>Choose from several play button styles</li>
<li>Choose the traditional red or the alternative white progress bar for the Youtube video player</li>
<li>Don’t show related videos at the end of your videos</li>
<li>Works with WordPress Multisite and many plugins such as TablePress</li>
</ul>
<h4>Future features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set a custom preview image per video</li>
<li>Track how often the videos have been loaded with Google Analytics</li>
<li>… YOU want a new feature RIGHT NOW? Please implement it yourself and <a href="https://github.com/kevinweber/lazy-load-for-videos" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute on Github</a>, and I’ll publish your enhancements to the official WordPress directory.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translators</h4>
<ul>
<li>Serbian (sr_RS) – <a href="//firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ogi Djuraskovic</a></li>
<li>Spanish (es_ES) – <a href="http://po5i.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Carlos Villavicencio</a></li>
</ul>
<p>If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can <a href="https://www.kweber.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">send me</a> your gettext PO and MO so that I can bundle it into my plugin. You can download the latest POT file <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/lazy-load-for-videos/trunk/languages/lazy-load-for-videos.pot" rel="nofollow ugc">from here</a>.</p>


Lazy Load for Videos

We have pages with multiple videos and that slowed down the page load and increased network traffic. This plugin improved it a lot. Reduced blocking of some pages with seconds and reduced the page load from 3MB to 1,3MB.



Works great


I noticed Squarespace has a much slicker way of loading and showing embedded videos, and I wanted it.   This plugin works perfectly to provide it so that my video portfolio page loads faster and looks better.  Thanks to the developer!


Simple solution for making video pages fast like Squarespace

Boost page speed by replacing embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image. Video scripts only load on click.

nosilver4u

<p>Are you frustrated by a slow website? Do over-sized images make you say “ewww”… Let EWWW Image Optimizer help you make your site faster, improve your bounce rate, and boost your SEO. But most importantly, make your visitors happier so they keep coming back for more.</p>
<p>With EWWW IO you can optimize all your existing images, <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/84-plugin-compatibility" rel="nofollow ugc">from any plugin</a>, and then let EWWW IO take care of new image uploads automatically.</p>
<p><strong>Why use EWWW Image Optimizer?</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>No Speed Limits</strong> and <a href="https://ewww.io/unlimited-file-size/" rel="nofollow ugc">unlimited file size</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Smooth Handling</strong> with pixel-perfect optimization using industry-leading tools and progressive rendering.</li>
<li><strong>High Torque</strong> as we bring you the best compression/quality ratio available with our Premium compression for JPG, PNG, SVG, WebP, and PDF files.</li>
<li><strong>Adaptive Steering</strong> with intelligent conversion options to get the right image format for the job (JPG, PNG, GIF, AVIF, or WebP).</li>
<li><strong>Free Parking</strong> The core plugin is free and always will be. However, our paid services offer up to 80% compression, and a <a href="https://ewww.io/plans/" rel="nofollow ugc">host of other features</a>!</li>
<li><strong>Comprehensive Coverage:</strong> no image gets left behind, optimize everything on your site, not just the WordPress Media Library.</li>
<li><strong>Safety First:</strong> all communications are secured with top SSL encryption.</li>
<li><strong>Roadside Assistance:</strong> top-notch support is in our DNA. While API customers get top priority, we answer <a href="https://ewww.io/contact-us/" rel="nofollow ugc">every single support question with care</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Pack a Spare:</strong> free image backups store your original images for 30 days.</li>
</ol>
<p>EWWW IO is the only plugin that lets you optimize images using tools on your own server (jpegtran, optipng, pngout, pngquant, gifsicle, cwebp). If you feel the need for more speed, get more compression and offload the CPU-intensive process of optimization to <a href="https://ewww.io/plans/" rel="nofollow ugc">our specialized servers</a>.</p>
<h4>Automatic Everything</h4>
<p>With Easy IO, images are automatically compressed, scaled to fit the page and device size, lazy loaded, and converted to next-gen WebP and AVIF formats.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Stuck? Feeling like maybe you DO need that rocket science degree? <a href="https://ewww.io/contact-us/" rel="nofollow ugc">We provide free one-on-one email support to everyone</a>.<br />
Do you have an idea to make EWWW IO even better? <a href="https://feedback.ewww.io/b/features" rel="nofollow ugc">Share it and vote on future features</a>!</p>
<p>Found a bug? Report the issue on <a href="https://github.com/nosilver4u/ewww-image-optimizer" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>, and we’ll get it fixed!</p>
<p>You may report security issues through our Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team helps validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. <a href="https://patchstack.com/database/vdp/ewww-image-optimizer" rel="nofollow ugc">Report a security vulnerability.</a></p>
<h4>Bulk Optimize</h4>
<p>Optimize all your images from a single page. This includes the Media Library, your theme, and a handful of pre-configured folders (see Optimize Everything Else below). GRAND FlaGallery, NextCellent and NextGEN have their own Bulk Optimize pages.</p>
<h4>Optimize Everything Else</h4>
<p>Configure any folder within your WordPress install to be optimized. The Bulk Optimizer will compress theme images, BuddyPress avatars, BuddyPress Activity Plus images, Meta Slider slides, WP Symposium Pro avatars, GD bbPress attachments, Grand Media Galleries, and any user-specified folders. You can also use Scheduled optimization or run the optimizer from WP-CLI if that’s more your thing.</p>
<h4>Plugin Compatibility</h4>
<p>EWWW IO has been tested with hundreds (if not thousands) of <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/84-plugin-compatibility" rel="nofollow ugc">plugins and themes</a>, here are just a few of the most common ones: BuddyPress (Activity Plus add-on too), Cloudinary, Easy Watermark, FileBird, FooGallery, GD bbPress Attachments, GRAND FlAGallery, Gmedia Photo Gallery, MediaPress, Meta Slider, Microsoft Azure Storage, MyArcadePlugin, NextGEN Gallery, Regenerate Thumbnails, <a href="https://weglot.com/integrations/wordpress-translation-plugin/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Weglot</a>, WP Offload Media, <a href="https://wpml.org/plugin/ewww-image-optimizer/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a>, WP Retina 2x, WP RSS Aggregator, WP Symposium. <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/84-plugin-compatibility" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more…</a></p>
<h4>WebP Images</h4>
<p>If you want simple, get automatic WebP conversion with Easy IO, and be done with it! Otherwise, you can generate WebP versions of your images with the Bulk Optimizer, and deliver them to supported browsers. Take your pick between Apache-style rewrite rules, JS WebP Rewriting, and  WebP Rewriting. EWWW IO even works with the WebP option in the Cache Enabler plugin from KeyCDN.</p>
<h4>AVIF Images</h4>
<p>AVIF conversion is built into the Easy IO CDN. Once your site is setup with Easy IO, edit the site settings to enable AVIF, and you’re done!</p>
<h4>WP-CLI</h4>
<p>Allows you to run all Bulk Optimization processes from your command line, instead of the web interface. It is much faster, and allows you to do things like run it in ‘screen’ or via regular cron (instead of wp-cron, which can be unpredictable on low-traffic sites). Install WP-CLI from wp-cli.org, and run ‘wp-cli.phar help ewwwio optimize’ for more information or see the <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/25-optimizing-with-wp-cli" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs</a>.</p>
<h4>CDN Support</h4>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/" rel="ugc">WP Offload Media</a> is the officially supported (and recommended) plugin for uploads to Amazon S3, Digital Ocean Spaces, and Google Cloud Storage. <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/84-plugin-compatibility" rel="nofollow ugc">Check our compatibility list for details on other plugins</a>. All pull mode CDNs like Cloudflare, KeyCDN, MaxCDN, and Sucuri CloudProxy work automatically, but will require you to purge the cache after a bulk optimization.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>Huge thanks to all our translators, <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/contributors" rel="nofollow ugc">see the full list</a>!</p>
<p>If you would like to help translate this plugin, <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ewww-image-optimizer" rel="nofollow ugc">join the team</a>.<br />
<a href="https://ewww.io/register/" rel="nofollow ugc">Signup to receive updates when new strings are available for translation</a>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Written by <a href="https://ewww.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Shane Bishop</a> with special thanks to my <a href="https://www.iamsecond.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lord and Savior</a>. Based upon CW Image Optimizer, which was written by <a href="http://www.jacoballred.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jacob Allred</a> at <a href="http://www.corbanworks.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Corban Works, LLC</a>. CW Image Optimizer was based on WP Smush.it. Jpegtran is the work of the Independent JPEG Group. PEL is the work of Martin Geisler, Lars Olesen, and Erik Oskam. Easy IO and HTML parsing classes based upon the Photon module from Jetpack.</p>


EWWW Image Optimizer

Serve webp images with fallback for browser which don't support

Excellent plugin!

I installed Imsanity which is another plugin I love and it recommended the EWWW Image Optimizer and I installed it and it drastically cut down the file size of the images as well as converting them to different file formats! I was so impressed it was so easy to use and the optimized images looked super fantastic! I couldn't tell the difference and it optimized all sizes of the different sizes that WordPress creates and it handled it all! Super thrilled to have found this gem!

I love this plugin!


Very nice plugin that does the job. We have used this plugin in number of our websites.


Nice plugins that works for free

Fantastic

Works perfect - I loved it


Useless plug-in! They force you to register on their site and you have to pay! But that's not all, you can't delete your account and you can't contact them. They use your personal data to spam you with useless emails. Misleading methods that have nothing to do with Wordpress.org


useless plugin

Class A tool to minify images


Does a good job at optimizing images. 



Full disclosure: I'm leaving this review because I'm sick of seeing the nag in my admin, which I prefer to keep unmolested by the promotional efforts of plugin authors.


Easy to use


I have been using EWWW for 3 years now and never had any issues. So, kudos to that and for this great tool.


My go-to image optimization plugin


WP Core 6.5 has added AVIF support, yet EWWW IO still doesn't support it.  Seems like just an excuse to push people to use their paid CDN service Easy IO.  I've been a long time user of EWWW IO but now it seems like the it doesn't do much of anything useful anymore.  


Failed to keep up with standards, no AVIF support


Very useful for tuning up WordPress site. Thanks for a great plugin!


Very useful and highly functional plugin!


Totally solved page speed issues on premium, it is the oldest plugin for image optimization on WP as far as I know


Great and Simple

Smaller Images, Faster Sites, Happier Visitors. Comprehensive image optimization that doesn't require a degree in rocket science.

Lazy Load for Videos vs EWWW Image Optimizer