Lazy Embed
Improves the performance and reduces the emissions of your website by only loading embeds (youtube, vimeo, etc) when they are clicked.
5(2 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Lazy Embed is a WordPress embed plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.2.0+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2023. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed….
5/52 reviews
100active installs
3.0K+total downloads
3 yearssince 2023
Overview
Videos are one of the largest assets that can be loaded on a webpage, and as such are one of the largest contributors to slow performance and high carbon emissions.
In fact, adding a Youtube embed to a page using the latest default WordPress theme, increased the page transfer size from 21 kb to 973 kb, and loaded an additional 27 resources. That’s an increase in transfer size of 4533%. Adding a Vimeo video increased the transfer from 21 kb to 276 kb, an increase in transfer size of 1214%, and loaded an additional 7 resources.
The Lazy Embed plugin defers the loading of any resource required for playing the video until the video is requested to be played. It does this by adding a srcdoc attribute to the iframe which shows in place of the normal iframe content.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.2.0+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.6.3 – 22/05/2024
Fix: Sometimes the maxresdefault thumbnail from youtube doesnt exist. If this is the case, use a smaller image as a fallback
Contributors
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