Yes, Crazy Lazy is free to use. It is available as a free plugin on WordPress.org.

How many websites use Crazy Lazy?

Crazy Lazy has 500 active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Crazy Lazy alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Crazy Lazy include Disable Lazy Load, Native Lazyload, Page Loading Effects. You can compare them side-by-side on our comparison pages.

Does Crazy Lazy work with the latest WordPress?

Crazy Lazy has been tested up to WordPress 5.6.17. It requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+.

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Crazy Lazy

Name: Crazy Lazy
Rating: 4.5 (14 reviews)
Author: pluginkollektiv

Warning: Crazy Lazy has reached end of life. WordPress 5.5+ supports lazy-loading of images in Core based on the native HTML loading attribute.

By pluginkollektiv·Lazy·Free

4.5(14 reviews)

·500 active installs·Updated 5 years ago

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As of April 2026, Crazy Lazy is a WordPress lazy plugin with 500 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 52K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Disable Lazy Load.

4.5/514 reviews

500active installs

52K+total downloads

13 yearssince 2013

Overview

Warning: Crazy Lazy has reached end of life. WordPress 5.5+ supports lazy-loading of images in Core based on the native HTML loading attribute. If you look for an alternative plugin, we recommend to use Lazy Loader instead.

Crazy Lazy helps increasing the performance of your blog or website by displaying images efficiently. When a page would usually display some images, Crazy Lazy will prevent those images to load. Only when a user scrolls down the page and reaches the position where an image actually should be displayed, that particular image will be loaded from the server.

By loading images only when needed, Crazy Lazy will reducing page loading times and (potentially costly) traffic.

This Lazy Load plugin is structured very lean and does not require any settings: activate, done. Depend…

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