Prioritizes the loading of images and videos based on how they appear to actual visitors: adds fetchpriority, preloads, lazy-loads, and sets sizes.
As of April 2026, Image Prioritizer is a WordPress image plugin with 50K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 280K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2024. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 14% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
This plugin optimizes the loading of images (and videos) with prioritization to improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), lazy loading, and more accurate image size selection.
The current optimizations include:
fetchpriority=high preload links (both as LINK[rel=preload] elements and Link response headers) for image URLs of LCP elements:
IMG element, including the srcset/sizes attributes supplied as imagesrcset/imagesizes on the LINK.SOURCE element with a type attribute in a PICTURE element. (Art-directed PICTURE elements using media queries are not supported.)background-image inline style attribute.background-image applied with a stylesheet (when the image is from an allowed origin).VIDEO element’…I don’t know what this does but I have seen a massive speed boost from 67 to 95-99 it would be good to have some control of the settings of fetchpriority=high
| WordPress | 6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
| Dependencies | optimization-detective |
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