Create your lazy loading celebrity fan site

How to Add Lazy Loading for Images and Video in WordPress Step 1: and Activate the a3 Lazy Load Plugin. The a3 plugin enables you to exclude specific images and pages from lazy loading. Step 2: Adjust the Plugin Image Settings. Step 3: Adjust the Plugin Video Settings. Step 4: Disable Delayed Loading (Optional)

A practical example would be when you land on the home page of an e-commerce site with a link to a cart page/section, and none of the cart pageʼs resources (such as JavaScript, CSS, and images) are downloaded until you navigate there.

Native lazy loading of images and iframes is a straightforward method to lazy load content when a user scrolls the web page. You just need to add the loading=lazy attribute to your images and iframes. As you can see, no JavaScript, no dynamic swapping of the src attributeʼs value, just plain old HTML.

Lazy loading can harm SEO if it prevents Googlebot from crawling content, especially important elements like text and images. Google can now handle lazy-loaded content, but only if itʼs implemented with proper techniques like using loading=``lazyʼʼ or IntersectionObserver.

Enable Native Lazy Loading Through the Browser Popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Opera support native image lazy loading. You only need to add the loading attribute to the targeted images and videos to enable it automatically.

If native lazy loading is not working on your WordPress site, itʼs likely because you are targeting elements without the or tags attached. Those are the only tags that WordPress natively lazy-loads.

To Enable Lazy Frame Loading in Microsoft Edge, Open Microsoft Edge. Type the following in the address bar: edge://flags/#enable-lazy-frame-loading . Select Enabled from the drop-down menu next to the Lazy Frame Loading line. Click on the restart button.

By default, WordPress uses lazy loading to delay media downloads, which improves load times. At WPBeginner, we use this feature on some of our sites to speed things up.