Title: Be Lazy Author: fayne Published: May 13, 2019 Last modified: June 18, 2019 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/be-lazy/assets/icon.svg?rev=2086714) # Be Lazy By [fayne](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fayne/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/be-lazy.zip) * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/#description) * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/#reviews) * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/be-lazy/) ## Description Enhance your website’s user experience and seo ranking by lazy loading images. ### What is lazy loading? _«Lazy loading is a technique that defers loading of non-critical resources at page load time. Instead, these non-critical resources are loaded at the moment of need.»_ – Jeremy Wagner, Google Developer In other words: Lazy loading images makes them being loaded asynchronously which makes it possible to load them conditionally (e.g. when they are within the visitors’s viewport). In doing so, you will prevent your visitors from downloading images they would never see anyway. ### What are the advantages? The main advantages for your visitors are: #### 1. Reduced page load time Having to initially load less resources, naturally reduces the loading duration. This will be more noticeable the more images you have on your website and may have a critical impact on your visitors’s experience as well as your SEO ranking. #### 2. Smaller page size It’s possible that your visitors will not scroll down to the very bottom of the page and therefore not load all images. Having to load a few images less might not be relevant on unlimited connections. For visitors browsing your website on limited plans however, you’ll prevent them from wasting their data allowances. Again, this is a factor influencing your SEO ranking. ### Browser support Be Lazy uses a polyfill for browsers not supporting the IntersectionObserver API by default. As a result, pretty much any browser is supported. ✔ Google Chrome ✔ Mozilla Firefox ✔ Opera ✔ Microsoft Edge ✔ Microsoft Internet Explorer (7+) ✔ Safari (6+) ✔ Android Browser (4.4+) ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3c2b456e8f6e57a700d341f1cd07cc3779e3d578b1d0c4a8d763ff85b4479382? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[The fastest Lazy Loading Plugin for WP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-fastest-lazy-loading-plugin-for-wp/)󠁿 [stkuhn](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stkuhn/) July 1, 2020 Works out of the box und has a really fast lazy image loading with good Pagespeed Insights / Web Vitals score. Would be perfekt if the plugin could also lazy load images in Wordpress widgets (sidebar etc.) ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/cc14a21ef68943a004fde8915f5e452d6df9b152905cbcec42c7da0fbf83bc52? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Worked flawlessly 🙂](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-flawlessly-31/)󠁿 [sassyrat](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sassyrat/) May 17, 2019 Did what it should be doing, I can recommend it. Would be great though if there were more configuration options being integrated in the future (e.g. to change the transition style or adjust the threshold). [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/be-lazy/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Be Lazy” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ fayne ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fayne/) “Be Lazy” has been translated into 8 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/be-lazy/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Be Lazy” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/be-lazy) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/be-lazy/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/be-lazy/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/be-lazy/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/be-lazy/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.2.1 [Added] + Elementor post types filter #### 1.2 [Added] + Post type based configuration + Option to manually select posts + Option handling via Ajax #### 1.1 [Fixed] + Default configuration value empty #### 1.0 Initial release ## Meta * Version **1.2.1** * Last updated **7 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.2.24** * PHP version ** 5.6 or higher ** * Languages * [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/), [English (New Zealand)](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/), [English (South Africa)](https://en-za.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/), [German (Austria)](https://de-at.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/), and [German (Switzerland)](https://de-ch.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/be-lazy) * Tags * [images](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/images/)[lazy](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/lazy/) [lazyload](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/lazyload/)[loading](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/loading/) [speed](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/speed/) * [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/be-lazy/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/be-lazy/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/be-lazy/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/be-lazy/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/be-lazy/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/be-lazy/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/be-lazy/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/be-lazy/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ fayne ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fayne/) ## Support Got something to say? 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