Use a3 Lazy Load for images, videos, iframes that are not lazy loaded by WordPress core. Instantly improve your sites load time and dramatically impro …
As of April 2026, a3 Lazy Load is a WordPress lazyload plugin with 90K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 148 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.1M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are up 14% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Advanced Responsive Video Embedder for….
a3 Lazy Load is a Mobile Oriented, very simple to use plugin that will speed up sites page load speed. The more content heavy your site the better the plugin will perform and the more you will see the improvements in performance. See this demo of a page with 1,000 images (yes 1,000 images) to load.
a3 Lazy Load is inspired by and powered by the ressio Lazy-Load-xt JavaScript.
WordPress 5.5 introduced lazy loading for all images uploaded to a sites media library and 5.7 introduces Core lazy load for iframes and 5.9 contained performance enhancements. a3 Lazy Load Image options work side-by-side with these, but then enhances it by lazy loading all the images loaded from outside of the media library, or on older browsers that do not support the new WP attri…
This plugin saved me a lot of time and solved my site loading problems.
Super easy setup and customization.
Great job. Thanks
Saves a lot of people a lot of time and energy. Thank you Steve
I had a problem of images on top of page loading after iframes on bottom of page (out of viewport).
Installed this plugin, activated, tested the page and… problem solved!
Few times a plugin solved an issue so quickly. Thanks!
Working just fine!
Amazing! The plugin for lazy loading images works flawlessly. Page speed scores are much higher now. Super easy to configure and doesn’t break layouts like some others.
| WordPress | 6.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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