To improve page loading speed you need to lazy load images in WordPress. This means images in your article will load one-by-one and visible to the users only when necessary. In this way, blog pages will be loaded with blazing speed and helps to rank well in Search Engines also.
Why to Lazy Load Images in WordPress ?
Lazy loading images in WordPress will surely help to improve page loading speed and increases the time spent by people on your blog. You can also save some server bandwidth, so we recommend to install below plugin on your WordPress blog.
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How to Lazy Load Images in WordPress
This plugin is based on jQuery.sonar, which actually loads images when they are visible in browser view port only. No admin panel or other settings page is available, just install the plugin and it will automatically lazy loads images in your posts.
This plugin can be included in must have WordPress Plugins list. Also, it has been recently updated to new version, so its in active development only.
WordPress Advanced Image Lazy Load
Here is the much better version of Lazy Load plugin that helps to improve user experience by loading images only when they are actually required. This plugin comes with a handful of options and everything can be easily controlled through admin menu.
Enable or Disable its functioning and change the loading icon in just 2 clicks. The best part is it can lazy load images in your theme also. If you are serious about Page Loading Speed, then we recommend to use this plugin.
Download Advanced Lazy Loading
Thats it from our end and dont forget to check how to add ALT tag to images in WordPress. If you are already using Load Load images plugin in WordPress, do share you experience with us.
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It is very good for a low bandwidth hosting. I am surely going to check how this plugin work and I hope this plugin will be compatible with my current theme.
Hi Dlysen, you have been using Modernize theme and Lazy Load plugin is compatible with it.
Hey,
This lazy load images is definitely a nice concept. Sometimes, it takes a lot of time to open up a blog and specially when it is filled up with images. Well, I think if we install this, then images will open up accordingly and when needed. Thanks for the important update.
That seems to be a good way to get rid of slow loading speed. I have never tried using it, but will now get it into work so as to know if it really works to improve our site’s speed.
I already know the benefits of making the images to load lazily but I was never able to do that. Thanks to you for telling me that there’s a superb plugin with the help of which I can do the job. Thanks.
I am going to apply that on mine WordPress blog that can save mine way lots of speed
hhhmmm.. sounds great! But I have used that plugin in past now I have Genesis Framework which is better for me, anyways, thanks for the very good tip.
I am definitely downloading the plugin; I desperately need to speed up my blog.
Thanks for the tip!
Sounds like a great plugin. Site speed is something that’s always on my to-do list. Thanks for the headsup. I’m heading off right now to check it out!
I am also using this plugin in my WordPress blog that is very good to use and saved a lot of time to load all the images. I think, the premium is more better than the free one.
Best Regards!