Lazy Loader
Lazy loading plugin that supports images, iFrames, video and audio elements and uses the lightweight lazysizes script. With manual modification of the …
4.7(49 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Lazy Loader is a WordPress images plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 49 reviews. It has been downloaded 215K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9.8+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 49% this week. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
4.7/549 reviews
10K+active installs
215K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Lazy loading plugin that supports images, iFrames, video and audio elements and uses the lightweight lazysizes script. With manual modification of the markup it is also possible to lazy load background images, scripts, and styles.
Lazy loads (without the need of any manually modifications):
- Images inserted via
imgorpicturein posts, pages, Custom Post Types, Text Widgets, … - Post thumbnails.
- Inline background images.
- Or all images and other enabled media in the markup (that is not excluded or already has a lazy loading attribute), via the option to process the complete markup.
- iFrames.*
- Video elements.*
- Audio elements.*
* Can be enabled in the plugin options.
The plugin comes with the following options (under Settings › Media › Lazy Loader options):
- Do not lazy load elements with…
Ratings & Reviews
4.749 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works with WEBP galleries
by Rafał·3 years ago
Quite strange matter – tested on WP 5.9.3, and 6.0 – when a gallery has JPEG thumbnails then native lazy loading works as suspected, but when a gallery is built with WEBP thumbnails it does NOT!? despite loading="lazy" attribute at every IMG.
Thank you!!
Thank You
by Jonas·4 years ago·1 reply
Great, you can just exclude images etc. I need it for that.
Very good
by Orhan Bilikvar·4 years ago·1 reply
Solving the Threshold problem is invaluable.
Thank you!
- This topic was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by Orhan Bilikvar.
Works on some themes
by Suraj Lulla·4 years ago·1 reply
This is an incredible plugin, it works great on one of my websites but unfortunately, it doesn’t work at all on my other staging website, don’t know if I am doing something wrong.
Finally a plugin that actually works!
by apollosk·4 years ago·1 reply
I’m impressed. Works as advertised. Kudos to the developer.
Download Trends
Today: 14Yesterday: 23This week: 153Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9.8+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v8.2
71.3%
v8.1
20.2%
Other
8.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
8.2.0 – 14.04.2024
Tested with WordPress 6.5.
Added
lazy_loader_generate_noscriptfilter to allow disabling ofnoscriptelement generation.
Fixed
- Updated
mastermind/html5dependency to latest version, which fixes a PHP deprecation notice.
Contributors
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