7 Best Lazy Load WordPress Plugins

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7 Best Lazy Load WordPress Plugins for a Better Website Experience!

Anyone who owns a blog would want their content to be attention-grabbing and for that, many bloggers add tons of images to their blogs. however, the dark side of embracing these images is that you are likely to experience a slow-loading website. No one likes slow websites. So, what do we do? Reduce the images? Or not use them at all? Wait! There’s a better way! And that way is to lazy load images in WordPress and delay images on your blog. Lazy loading will only download the images that are visible on the users screen instead of loading all the images at once.

Google is not at all kind to any website that takes time to load, that’s why it is important to keep the speed of your website up and running. To help your website load faster, we have collected 7 best lazy load WordPress plugins today. So, let’s get started with the list of what we think are the best lazy load WordPress plugins.

Note: The list is in random order. 


7 Best Lazy Load WordPress Plugins 


BJ Lazy Load

BJ Lazy Load

BJ Lazy Load plugin is one of the most popular WordPress plugins when it comes to lazy loading images on blogs. The plugin will replace all your post images, post thumbnails, Gravatar images and content iframes with a placeholder and will load the content as the user scrolls.  It also supports videos embedded from YouTube, Vimeo, and others because of the support of the iframe. It is one of the must-try plugins on our today’s list.

 

 

Rocket Lazy Load

Rocket Lazy Load

Rocket Lazy Load displays images/iframes in a page only when they are visible to the user reducing the number of HTTP requests mechanism and improving the loading time of your website. The plugin is extremely small in size—2KB—yet it offers more benefits to the website itself as it doesn’t add the size of the website. It doesn’t rely on any external libraries as well. The plugin is an integral part of the more popular WP Rocket plugin that offers advanced caching options for the website.

 

 

Ajax Load More

Ajax Load More

Ajax Load More is a WordPress plugin that has been specially designed for infinite scrolling. However, it comes with tons of incredible features that can be used for lazy loading posts, pages and comments as well. One of the key features of the plugin includes the Ajax Load More shortcode builder. It can be helpful for building complex custom WordPress queries in the form of shortcodes and adding them to the web page. Another interesting feature in this plugin is the compatibility with WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads. This means the plugin will help improve the loading speeds of any e-commerce website as well.

 

 

Images Lazyload and Slideshow

Images Lazyload and Slideshow

Images Lazyload and Slideshow offers great features and comes with image lazy load, lightbox effect and also a gallery slideshows effect to your selected images. The effects are a great addition to the plugin as it enables you to add effects without even affecting the loading speed. It sure is another must-try plugin on our list today.

 

 

Advanced Lazy Load
Advanced lazy load

Advanced lazy load is a WordPress plugin with which you can lazy load all the assets and improve the loading time of your website. There are actually two options that Advanced Lazy Load plugin provides. The first option will give you the ability to set the distance between the image and the bottom of the browser, whereas the second option will enable you to set the image fade duration.

 

 

Lazy Load XT

Lazy Load XT

Lazy Load XT is a WordPress plugin for lazy loading the images.  The lazy load XT plugin comes with the support of different types of media such as YouTube videos, images or iframes. It also supports Vimeo videos and there is no other WordPress plugin you need to check if you are using the Lazy Load XT. With all the incredible feature it provides, it sure deserves a place on our today’s list of 7 best lazy load WordPress plugins.

 

 

Unveil Lazy Load

unveil lazy load

Unveil Lazy Load is a lightweight jQuery plugin. It also uses Unveil.js, giving it a footprint of less than 0.6 KB. This plugin works straight out of the box and lazy load your images as soon as you install and activate the plugin.

 

 

Finally, we’ve come to the end of our today’s article. All of the above-mentioned lazy load WordPress plugins are great and comes with incredible functionality. Images add value to any blog post and that’s why you shouldn’t bring them down and instead use lazy load to make your website’s loading speed faster.

We hope the article helped you find the lazy load plugin that fits your need. If you have anything to share, let us know through the comments.

1 thought on “7 Best Lazy Load WordPress Plugins

  1. Damon Moats says:

    Great! Its a very informative blog post, here I would like to share a very useful tutorial for manually setting up WordPress lazy loading through a plugin on wpblog I found it very easy to follow. I hope others will find it helful too. thanks

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