#60 by installs
EWWW Image Optimizer
Comprehensive image optimization with WebP, AVIF, Lazy Load, and more. Optimize images automatically for Faster Sites and Happy Visitors.
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 4.8 (1.8K)
- Updated
- 2 days ago
LazyLoad Plugin – Lazy Load Images, Videos, and Iframes
The best free lazy load plugin for WordPress. Lazy load images, videos, and iframes to improve performance and Core Web Vitals scores.
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #386 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1.9M
- 1,870,860
- Downloads, 30 days
- 74K
- 10.7K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5
- 139 reviews
- Last updated
- 25 days ago
- Oct 6, 2026
- Version
- 2.4.1
- 17 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 6, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.9 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | January 1, 2014 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.2 / 5 from 139 reviews
| 5 stars | 98 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 9 |
| 3 stars | 7 |
| 2 stars | 6 |
| 1 star | 19 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
LazyLoad is the best free lazy load plugin for WordPress to lazy load images, videos, and iframes on WordPress. In a nutshell, LazyLoad displays images, videos, and iframes on a page only when they are visible to the user – that’s one crucial way to speed up your WordPress site and optimize images for Google PageSpeed.
You can lazy load images in post content or widget text, plus thumbnails, avatars, and smilies. LazyLoad takes care of iframe lazy load, too: you’ll easily replace Youtube iframes with a preview thumbnail to further speed up the loading time of your website.
No JavaScript library such as jQuery is used, and the script weight is less than 10KB.
Why is lazy loading crucial for performance?
Lazy loading is a key performance technique to make your site faster. You’ll reduce loading time, improve your Lighthouse performance score and optimize your Core Web Vitals grades.
Lazy loading your images on WordPress will help you achieve a better PageSpeed Insights score for three main reasons:
- You’ll address a specific PageSpeed Insights recommendation: [Defer offscreen images](https://wp-rocket.me/google-core-web-vitals-wordpress/defer-offscreen-images/, which means image lazy loading.
- You’ll improve the performance of two key metrics: First Input Delay (Core Web Vital) and Total Blocking Time (Lighthouse metric).
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
How can I use native lazyload?
To use native lazyload on browsers supporting this feature, you need to use the following line:
add_filter( 'rocket_use_native_lazyload', '__return_true' );
Browsers that do not support native lazyload will use the JS-based solution as before.
How can I deactivate Lazy Load on some pages?
You can use the do_rocket_lazyload filter.
Here is an example to put in functions.php files that disable lazyload on posts:
add_action( 'wp', 'deactivate_rocket_lazyload_on_single' ); function deactivate_rocket_lazyload_on_single() { if ( is_single() ) { add_filter( 'do_rocket_lazyload', '__return_false' ); } }
How can I deactivate Lazy Load on some images?
Simply add a data-no-lazy="1" property in you img or iframe tag.
You can also use the filters rocket_lazyload_excluded_attributes or rocket_lazyload_excluded_src to exclude specific patterns.
For iframes, the filter is rocket_lazyload_iframe_excluded_patterns.
How can I change the threshold to trigger the load?
You can use the rocket_lazyload_threshold filter.
Code sample:
function rocket_lazyload_custom_threshold( $threshold ) { return 100; } add_filter( 'rocket_lazyload_threshold', 'rocket_lazyload_custom_threshold' );
How to remove the “ tag
You can use the rocket_lazyload_noscript filter to disable the addition of the <noscript> tag used for compatibility when JS is disabled.
add_filter( 'rocket_lazyload_noscript', '__return_false' );
How to change the image placeholder for lazyloaded images
You can use the rocket_lazyload_placeholder to change the default placeholder for lazyloaded images.
function rocket_lazyload_custom_placeholder( $placeholder ) { return 'default.jpg'; } add_filter( 'rocket_lazyload_placeholder', 'rocket_lazyload_custom_placeholder' );
Latest changelog entry
Bugfix: Improve attribute detection for background images and harden YouTube thumbnail rendering (rocket-lazyload-common 3.0.22)
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Add infinite scroll, lazy loading, and load more buttons to posts, pages, and WooCommerce products — fast and fully customizable for WordPress.
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- 30,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (287)
- Updated
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.