Lazy Embed
by beleaf · Performance
Improves the performance and reduces the emissions of your website by only loading embeds (youtube, vimeo, etc) when they are clicked.
53 health vs 68 average across 608 Performance plugins
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 786 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2023-02-03 · 1,260 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
40
now · peak 269
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2023-02-02 · 1,252 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-11-20 90+ → 100+ up after 40 days in band
- 2024-10-11 80+ → 90+ up after 4 days in band
- 2024-10-07 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-10-06 80+ → 90+ up after 22 days in band
- 2024-09-14 70+ → 80+ up after 6 days in band
- 2024-09-08 80+ → 70+ down after 9 days in band
- 2024-08-30 70+ → 80+ up after 23 days in band
- 2024-08-07 60+ → 70+ up after 19 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- I iframe 70K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A
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Lazy Load for Videos 9K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A -
Presto Player 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
All-in-One Video Gallery 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
WP YouTube Lyte 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Embeds for YouTube 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags C
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