Lazy load – what exactly is it suppose to do?

  • Resolved Mr Lucky

    (@voodoochill)


    3 years, 3 months ago

    Apologies for very basic question.

    Google Pagespeed insights suggested I use lazy load images. So enabled in Page Optimization.

    But what happens is the images seems to reload every page change or refresh. ie they take time to show up. This does not happen without lazy load so I’m not quite sure of the advantage.

    Please can someone explain if there is a way to stop this happening, thanks. Is it just something in the settings? Thanks

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  • Plugin Support qtwrk

    (@qtwrk)

    well , that’s exactly what and how “lazyload” does , it loads in lazy way

    by lazy in such context, it means it doesn’t load at same time as page renders , but only after page is rendered and image scrolled into viewport

    for example you have 10 images in your page from top to bottom

    without lazyload , all these 10 images will be requested and loaded as your page loads , even people doesn’t scroll down to the bottom to see last image , but it still loads, this costs time and bandwidth

    with lazyload , only first few images within the viewport will be loaded , and rest of page will only be loaded once visitor scrolls down the page , this will save time and bandwidth

    Thread Starter Mr Lucky

    (@voodoochill)

    Thanks that makes sense.

    I just found the media exclude tab to whitelist images above the fold so all good now!

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by Mr Lucky.
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