Lazy Loader

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 73% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Rafał

   4.2y 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!!

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2. ★★★★★ Jonas

   4.5y ago

   Great, you can just exclude images etc. I need it for that.

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3. ★★★★★ Orhan Bilikvar

   4.7y ago

   Solving the Threshold problem is invaluable. Thank you! This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Orhan Bilikvar.

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4. ★★★★★ Suraj Lulla

   4.7y ago

   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.

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5. ★★★★★ apollosk

   4.9y ago

   I’m impressed. Works as advertised. Kudos to the developer.

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6. ★★★★★ azbce

   4.9y ago

   Works great. Improved my site and PWA performance and load times. Thank you!

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7. ★★★★★ djeah

   5.4y ago

   Thanks for this amazing plugin man! I was looking for a solution to lazy load background images along with an option of modifying the threshold at which the images are loaded. Non of the other plugin seemed to work except this one!

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8. ★★★★★ kaggdesign

   5.5y ago

   Absolutely the best plugin for lazy loading, I use it for years.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 8.2.0 Tested with WordPress 6.5. Added lazy_loader_generate_noscript filter to allow disabling of noscript element generation. Fixed Updated mastermind/html5 dependency to latest version, which fixes a PHP deprecation notice. 8.2.0
2. — Version 8.1.1 Tested with WordPress 6.1. Fixed Disable lazy loading in TranslatePress editor. 8.1.1
3. — Version 8.1.0 Added Support for input elements of type image . 8.1.0
4. — Version 8.0.0 Removed Processing of wp_get_attachment_image , introduced in 7.2.0. I just noticed that processing that filter by default may break cases where a wrapper element has the skip-lazy class to disable lazy loading for conta 8.0.0
5. — Version 7.2.3 Fixed Stop processing embeds, because the lazysizes script is not loaded in the iframe and so the image in the embed can not be lazy loaded. 7.2.3
6. — Version 7.2.2 Fixed Duplicate images in Ultimate Addons for Elementor widget – thanks @kaggdesign. 7.2.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.2

Translated into 4 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-04-30 10K+ → 9K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Autoptimize 800K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• WebP Express 300K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Modern Image Formats 100K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Image Placeholders 60K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B
• Enhanced Responsive Images 50K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• U Unveil Lazy Load 2K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D

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Lazy Loader: 9K+ active installs, 4.7★ (49 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/lazy-loading-responsive-images