a3 Lazy Load

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Use a3 Lazy Load for images, videos, iframes. Instantly improve your sites load time and dramatically improve site users experience.

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a3 Lazy Load is a Mobile Oriented, very simple to use plugin that will speed up sites page load speed. The more content heavy your site the better the plugin will perform and the more you will see the improvements in performance. See this demo of a page with 1,000 images (yes 1,000 images) to load. a3 Lazy Load is inspired by and powered by the ressio Lazy-Load-xt JavaScript. a3 Lazy Load is the most fully featured, incredibly easy to set up lazy load plugin for WordPress. Use the plugins admin settings to easily define what elements are lazy loaded and when they become visible in the users browser. As the user scrolls down the page the next lot of elements you have applied lazy Load to are only loaded as they become visible in the view port. IMAGE LAZY LOAD Images are the number one element that slows page load and increases bandwidth use. From the a3 Lazy Load admin panel turn load images by a3 Lazy Load ON | OFF. For more flexibility when ON you can choose to ON | OFF lazy load for images in Post, Pages and Custom Post Types (All Content areas) Widgets (Sidebar, header and footer) Apply to post thumbnails Apply to gravatars MORE THAN JUST IMAGES VIDEO LAZY LOAD a3 Lazy Load...

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Tests done by WP Hive test script Results

Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 7.4.8 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Latest WordPress 6.0 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
Frequently updated The plugin was updated at least once in the last 90 days

No problems were detected during tests.

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All the scripts run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.4.8 & WordPress 6.0.
The database server is MySQL 8.0.21 and the default PHP memory limit is 256M.

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100K

Active Installation

8 years

On WordPress

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Growth Rate

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About a3 Lazy Load

Description

a3 Lazy Load is inspired by and powered by the ressio Lazy-Load-xt JavaScript.

a3 Lazy Load is the most fully featured, incredibly easy to set up lazy load plugin for WordPress. Use the plugins admin settings to easily define what elements are lazy loaded and when they become visible in the users browser. As the user scrolls down the page the next lot of elements you have applied lazy Load to are only loaded as they become visible in the view port.

IMAGE LAZY LOAD

Images are the number one element that slows page load and increases bandwidth use. From the a3 Lazy Load admin panel turn load images by a3 Lazy Load ON | OFF. For more flexibility when ON you can choose to ON | OFF lazy load for images in

Post, Pages and Custom Post Types (All Content areas)
Widgets (Sidebar, header and footer)
Apply to post thumbnails
Apply to gravatars

MORE THAN JUST IMAGES

VIDEO LAZY LOAD

a3 Lazy Load supports all WordPress video Embeds including Youtube, Vimeo and HTML5 video – for a full list see the WordPress Codex Embeds list. The WordPress embed method of copying and pasting the video url into posts and pages content area is fully supported.

Note – Works with Videos added by Text and HTML Widgets but not the new WordPress Video widget. That widget does not pull iframe at first load, it use JavaScript to replace html to iframe and hence a3 lazy Load can’t see it to apply.

From the a3 lazy Load admin panel turn Video Support ON | OFF. When ON you can choose to ON | OFF lazy load for videos in

Video embeded by URL in Post and Pages (All Content areas)
Video in Widget types, Text Widget and HTML Wigets.
Youtube see demo
Video see demo
Fully Compatible with the popular Youtube Embed Plugin

iFRAME LAZY LOAD

a3 Lazy Load has built in support for content that is added by iframe from any source in content and widgets. Examples

WordPress embedded media
Facebook Like boxes with profiles, Like buttons, Recommend
Google+ Profile
Google Maps

POST EMBED

Fully compatible with WordPress embed post on any site feature introduced in version WP version 4.4
Makes embed post load much faster

WORDPRESS AMP

Built in auto support for WordPress AMP plugin
Built in support for Better AMP plugin
There are no setting options for exclude /amp – Lazy Load is just never applied to the /amp endpoint
When the url is loaded in browser without /amp Lazy Load is applied

JETPACK SITE ACCELERATOR (Proton)

This is an option that you turn on as the Jetpack Accelerator (Proton CDN images) has its own lazy load feature that needs to be OFF first to be able use a3 Lazy Load as your lazy Load engine. Some users prefer to use a3 Lazy Load as it applies Lazy Load to the whole site not just images.

WebP IMAGES

As of a3 Lazy Load has built in automatic support for WebP images. There are no settings for this as a3 Lazy Load will automatically detect if an image has a WebP version and load that. If no WebP image exists the appropriate jpg or png version will be loaded. Also fully support browser detection of WebP.

WOOCOMMERCE

a3 lazy Load is built and tested to be fully compatible with the very widely used WooCommerce plugin

ADVANCED CUSTOM FIELDS

Fully compatible with the very popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin, Free and Premium versions.

LAZY LOAD EFFECTS

a3 Lazy Load gives you the option to lazy load images with a FADE IN or SPINNER effect

FADEIN see demo
SPINNER see demo
Option to create a custom Lazy Load pre-load background colour

PERFORMANCE TWEAKS

a3 Lazy Load gives you the option to load its script from your sites HEAD or from the FOOT.

Note that your theme must have the wp_footer() function if you select FOOTER load.
Note the plugin CSS is always loaded from the HEAD.

EXCLUDE IMAGES & VIDEO

a3 Lazy Load allows you to easily exclude any image or video by class name from having the Lazy Load effect applied. See FAQ’s

JAVASCIPT DISABLED FALLBACK

a3 Lazy Load has built in Noscript fallback if user has JavaScript turned off in their browser. Developers who use underscore.js in their applications can use the Noscript parameter to exclude their plugins content from Lazy Load.

THEME & PLUGIN COMPATIBILITY

a3 Lazy Load works with any WordPress theme that follows the WordPress Theme Codex. However, many Theme & Plugin developers will use a custom written function to add objects, example the theme has a home page with layout created by a custom function they have written. a3 Lazy Load cannot know what these functions are and so cannot apply to the objects loaded by that custom function.

If your images or objects not being Lazy Loaded in a certain section of your site, but are Lazy Loaded everywhere else you will know this is the cause. Please if this happens raise a support ticket with the developer, explaining that they just need to add a simple tag to their custom functions so that a3 Lazy Load apply to their custom function and be fully compatible. Here is a list of a3 lazy Load filter tags to include in your ticket to make it easy for the developer.

Don’t forget when a developer does add full compatibility with a3 Lazy Load please let us know via a support ticket on this forum and we will add them to the list below.

These are just some of the more popular plugins that are either tested 100% compatible with a3 Lazy Load or tags has been added for 100% compatibility.

Plugin – Advanced Custom Fields
Plugin – WooCommerce
Plugin – WP Offload
Plugin – WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache plugins
Plugin – Youtube Embed
Plugin – WordPress AMP
Plugin – WPTouch. Note – Set to not apply on Mobiles if WPTouch is installed
Plugin – MobilePress – Set to not apply on Mobiles if MobilePress is installed
WebP Plugins – Smush, EWWW Image Optimizer, Imagify, WebP Express
Plugins – Will not conflict with any plugin that has lazy load built in
CDN’s – JetPack Accelerator, Cloudfront, Cloudflare and all other known CDN architecture.

MORE FEATURES

Full support of jQueryMobile framework
WordPress Multi site ready.
Backend support for RTL display.
Translation ready

JOIN THE a3 LAZY LOAD COMMUNITY

When you download a3 lazy Load, you join our community. Regardless of if you are a WordPress newbie or experienced developer if you are interested in contributing to a3 Lazy Load development head over to the a3 Lazy Load GitHub Repository to find out how you can contribute.
Want to add a new language to a3 Lazy Load? Great! You can contribute via translate.wordpress.org

USAGE

Install and activate the plugin
Open WordPress Settings menu
Click on a3 Lazy Load menu
Turn ON Lazy Load and all preferred settings
Save Changes and enjoy the improved performance Lazy Load will give your site

Performance

Memory Usage

Average memory usage is 141.24 KB
This is less than 99% plugins

Page Speed

Average page loading time is increased by 0.03 s
This is faster than 99% plugins

Speed Test Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data

Before plugin activation
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Benchmark

Change

Average Change

+ 0.03s

/(front page)

+ 0.03s

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 0.01s

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 0.03s

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 0.06s

/wp-admin/index.php

- 0.04s

/wp-admin/media-new.php

- 0.19s

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 0.12s

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

- 0.19s

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 0.16s

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 0.36s

/wp-admin/upload.php

- 0.01s

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Memory Usage Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data

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Change

Average Change

+ 141.24KB

/ (front page)

+ 27.1KB

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 13.65KB

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 13.79KB

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 22.15KB

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 21.79KB

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 13.67KB

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 21.71KB

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 19.19KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 14.27KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 13.22KB

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 13.65KB

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