Instantly, automatically and painlessly make your website faster by reducing image payload and lazy loading them.
| Author: | Mel Macaluso (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.9 |
| WordPress version tested: | 5.2.2 |
| Plugin version: | 1.1 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 16-06-2019 |
| Last updated: | 20-06-2019
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 4 |
| Plugin URI: | https://mel-macaluso.me/plugins/picafto |
| Total downloads: | 1 208 |
| Active installs: | 10+ |
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Screenshots
Instant performance increase tested with Google's pagespeed insights.
Instant performance increase tested with GTMetrix.
Instant performance increase tested with Pingdom.
How faster is my website going to be?
It depends on how image-heavy that specific page is. As you can see from the screenshots the increase is substantial when the page is image-heavy on either size-wise or number-wise, as in big images or many images (or incrementally if both).
What about search engines not being able to see the image before the page is loaded?
Guess what? They don’t “see” it and what really makes the difference is the alt attribute which will stay the same and untouched. Not to mention that if that claim was remotely true, the page speed increase outweights by far the former thesis.
ChangeLog
1.0
1.1
- Switched behaviour to “scroll” to fetch lazy loaded images instead of on ‘load’ event as google is not consistent in reports.
- Widened the regex to catch also unclosed
<img> tags.
- Added
data-picafto-off as an option to optout to lazy loading.
