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Image Prioritizer

Prioritizes the loading of images and videos based on how they appear to actual visitors: adds fetchpriority, preloads, lazy-loads, and sets sizes.

By WordPress Performance Team·Image·Free
5(1 reviews)
·50K+ active installs·Updated 2 months ago
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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.

5/51 reviews
50K+active installs
100%resolved
2 yearssince 2024

Overview

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:

  1. Add breakpoint-specific fetchpriority=high preload links (both as LINK[rel=preload] elements and Link response headers) for image URLs of LCP elements:
    1. An IMG element, including the srcset/sizes attributes supplied as imagesrcset/imagesizes on the LINK.
    2. The first SOURCE element with a type attribute in a PICTURE element. (Art-directed PICTURE elements using media queries are not supported.)
    3. An element with a CSS background-image inline style attribute.
    4. An element with a CSS background-image applied with a stylesheet (when the image is from an allowed origin).
    5. A VIDEO element’…
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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
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1 ★
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Recent Reviews

speed boost
by ivanmecina·8 months ago

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

  • This topic was modified 8 months, 2 weeks ago by ivanmecina.

Download Trends

Today: 152Yesterday: 271This week: 1KPeriod total: 155K

Compatibility

WordPress6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP7.2+ required
Dependenciesoptimization-detective

Version Adoption

v1.0
94.4%
Other
5.6%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0.0-beta3

Enhancements

  • Add URL Metric mutation helpers to extension initialization API. (1951)
  • Improve construction of inline scripts with sourceURL, hardened JSON encoding, and exporting JSON in separate script. (2169)

Bug Fixes

  • Allow background image URLs for file types the web server doesn’t know about, e.g. when AVIF is sent as application/octet-stream. (1956)
  • Remove responsive image sizes computation. (2109)
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
1.0.0-beta3
Last Updated
Jan 9, 2026
WP Requires
6.6+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
7.2+
Active Installs
50K+
Downloads
280K+
Added
Jun 5, 2024
Business
Community

Tags

imageperformanceoptimizationoptimization-detective

Developer

W
WordPress Performance Team
10 plugins0.7M+ total installs
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