LazyLoad Background Images

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This plugin lazyloads background images

Author:Proloy Bhaduri (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:5.2
WordPress version tested:6.5
Plugin version:1.0.7
Added to WordPress repository:30-07-2022
Last updated:31-03-2024
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Total downloads:4 731
Active installs:400+
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This plugin will delay the loading of background images in your website and thus helps boosting the website loading time by reducing total number of HTTP requests.

Quick Notes & Links

  1. Do not lazyload background images which are peresent above the fold because this will increase time to First Contentful Paint(FCP) metric and affect the speed of your website .
  2. Background images that are added using inline CSS e.g, <p style=" background-image: url( path/to/background-img.jpg )" > </p> are lazyloaded by this plugin by default .
  3. No dependencies required for this plugin to work.
  4. No extra HTTP request
  5. Add the selectors of the elements that have background images in the plugin settings page or add lazyload-bg class to the element .
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Works smoothly with almost every page builders

Exclude certain inline background images from lazy loading using filter hook lazyload_inline_bg_excludes

add_filter(‘lazyload_inline_bg_excludes’,function($exclude_keywords){
$exclude_keywords = [
‘bg-image.jpg’,
‘class-name’,
‘id’,
‘or any unique keyword that the element with background image has’
];
},10,1);

Note: Add the above code to the functions.php file of your active theme/child theme or using a code snippets plugin.

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