WP jQuery Lazy Load
by Muhammad Shoaib · Performance
Add jQuery lazy loading to images
44 health vs 71 average across 396 Performance plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.13.
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 1670 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
49
now · peak 2.8K
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 30+ in roughly 122 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-04-06 10+ → 20+ up after 365 days in band
- 2025-04-06 20+ → 10+ down after 35 days in band
- 2025-03-02 10+ → 20+ up after 12 days in band
- 2025-02-18 20+ → 10+ down after 37 days in band
- 2025-01-12 10+ → 20+ up after 339 days in band
- 2024-02-08 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-02-06 10+ → 20+ up after 30 days in band
- 2024-01-07 20+ → 10+ down after 224 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- J jQuery Image Lazy Load WP 800+ installs · 3.5★ · 4 shared tags D
- J jQuery Updater 20K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags B
- U Use Google Libraries 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
- F FancyBox 4K+ installs · 3.4★ · 2 shared tags D
- C Cleaner Gallery 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
- S Slideshow 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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