Lazy Load images, videos, iframes and more using Lazy Load XT.
50 health vs 59 average across 2,206 Media plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, well behind 6.8.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3841 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
88
now · peak 105
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
10.5y ago
latest release · v0.5.3
11
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “600+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2015-03-10 · 1,424 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ idanka9.5y ago
The best, But its (real) mobile browser is very slow loading youtube video. desktop responsive browser mode, there is no slowdown.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ justraveling9.6y ago
We’ve been trying all the available plugins and this performed best together with Rocket Lazy Load. It brings down significantly the page loading time and doesn’t break the design. Just a bit too lazy on mobile.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ AlgerieDeals9.7y ago
Instant improvement on pingdom.com
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ matteo raggi9.9y ago
I tryed others and htis is the best of the wp lazy loads, probably also outside WP 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ advantagen10.1y ago
This plugin made my site obviously laggy, and increased my load times by 2 seconds
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ stevygee198710.1y ago
I just had to add get_lazyloadxt_html() to the gallery output, after that it worked perfectly! Much better than the Lazy Load plugin, which stopped working with WP 4.4!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ NUCUTA10.1y ago
See this image http://i.imgur.com/PzOIDGI.png It’s my main page’s slider, it loads blank when installing this plugin When the page loads at the first time without any cache, it loads with the browser’s default font, then suddenly changed into the site’s font. Not just the images in “not seen parts”, but also images in the view port load blank. I would say this plugin has a huge potential, but at the moment, as it’s not updated, it doesn’t function as it advertises despite having 5/5 reviews.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ hillers5410.5y ago
Got to give this one the big 5 out of 5. My old lazy load plugin loaded my images very slowly but this plugin is lightning fast. Thanks for a great plugin guys.
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Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-04-14 700+ → 600+ down after 158 days in tier
- 2025-11-07 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-06 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-05 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-04 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-03 800+ → 700+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2025-10-29 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-10-28 800+ → 700+ down after 2 days in tier
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