Lazy Loader for WordPress
- Category rank
- #67 in Performance
- Listing audit
- 45/100
Lazy Loader is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Florian Brinkmann. With a rating of 4.7★ from 49 reviews, it currently ranks #67 in the Performance category.
Lazy Loader is the #67 ranked Performance app on WordPress, with a 4.7 average rating from 49 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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Lazy Loader ranks #67 of 762 in Performance on WordPress. It holds a 4.7★ average from 49 reviews on WordPress.
Pros
- +4.7★ average across 49 reviews
Cons
- −Only 49 reviews — the average can still move with a few new ratings
How Lazy Loader works
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Lazy loading plugin that supports images, iFrames, video and audio elements and uses the lightweight lazysizes script. With manual modification of the markup it is also possible to lazy load background images, scripts, and styles.
Lazy loads (without the need of any manually modifications):
Images inserted via img or picture in posts, pages, Custom Post Types, Text Widgets, …
Post thumbnails.
Inline background images.
Or all images and other enabled media in the markup (that is not excluded or already has a lazy loading attribute), via the option to process the complete markup.
iFrames.*
Video elements.*
Audio elements.*
* Can be enabled in the plugin options.
The plugin comes with the following options (under Settings › Media › Lazy Loader options):
Do not lazy load elements with specific CSS classes (you can use the class skip-lazy by default).
Add filters that should be processed by Lazy Loader.
Enable lazy loading for iFrames.
Include the lazysizes native loading plugin that modifies images and iFrames to use the native lazy loading feature of browsers that already support it.
Include the lazysizes unveilhooks plugin that adds support for more elements, for example, video and audio elements.*
