LazyLoad Plugin – Lazy Load Images, Videos, and Iframes
The best free lazy load plugin for WordPress. Lazy load images, videos, and iframes to improve performance and Core Web Vitals scores.
4.2(139 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 5 months agoAs of April 2026, LazyLoad Plugin is a WordPress lazy load plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 139 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.7M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 7.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are down 28% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: EWWW Image Optimizer.
4.2/5139 reviews
100K+active installs
0%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
LazyLoad is the best free lazy load plugin for WordPress to lazy load images, videos, and iframes on WordPress. In a nutshell, LazyLoad displays images, videos, and iframes on a page only when they are visible to the user – that’s one crucial way to speed up your WordPress site and optimize images for Google PageSpeed.
You can lazy load images in post content or widget text, plus thumbnails, avatars, and smilies. LazyLoad takes care of iframe lazy load, too: you’ll easily replace Youtube iframes with a preview thumbnail to further speed up the loading time of your website.
No JavaScript library such as jQuery is used, and the script weight is less than 10KB.
Why is lazy loading crucial for performance?
Lazy loading is a key performance technique to make your site faster. You’ll reduce loa…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
nice plugin
by nextthemes·10 months ago
works fine for me…
Messes up the padding
by masalenasi·1 year ago
Speeds up my site but messes up the padding with YT videos.
Lost all page content now restoring backup
by jamiegee·1 year ago
Installed the plugin and selected the three options from settings and checked the website so find all content missing. I then reversed the process but content still missing and not visible in backend. Attempting to restore from backup.
It’s working like a charm!
by Artneo·1 year ago
This plugin added lazy loading functionality to my custom WordPress theme, worked like a charm! Thank you a lot! 🙏🏼👨🏻💻
Download Trends
Today: 487Yesterday: 575This week: 4KPeriod total: 165K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.4
50.9%
v2.3
45.4%
Other
3.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.4.0
Security: Fix an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability reported by Pathstack.
Contributors
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