Flying Images: Optimize and Lazy Load Images for Faster Page Speed

Description

The complete solution for image optimization

Features

• Free Unlimited CDN – Flying Images uses Statically to provide free CDN. Statically is powered by Cloudflare (premium network), BunnyCDN, Fastly and CDN77. No hidden charges or upsell.
• On the fly Image Compression – Compress images on the fly via CDN. You can also set the desired quality needed.
• On the fly WebP conversion – Convert and deliver images as Webp via CDN if the browser supports it.
• Responsive/Adaptive Images – Creates srcset to deliver resized images based on device. Supports external images too.
• Native/JavaScript lazy loading – Load images using the browser’s native lazy loading if available (currently supported in Chrome) or via JavaScript. JavaScript only lazy load is also available. Also supports lazy loading inlined background images.
• Tiny JavaScript – Only 0.7KB, gzipped, minified.
• Rewrites entire HTML – Never miss an image from lazy loading or adding CDN, even the ones injected by gallery plugins.

Support

• Official Support Forum
• Facebook Group

Our premium products

• FlyingPress
• FlyingCDN

Our free plugins

• Flying Pages
• Flying Images
• Flying Scripts
• Flying Analytics
• Flying Fonts

Screenshots

Installation

From within WordPress

1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
2. Search for ‘Flying Images’
3. Activate Flying Images for WordPress from your Plugins page.
4. Visit ‘Settings -> Flying Images’ to configure

Manually

1. Upload the flying-images folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the Flying Images plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Visit ‘Settings -> Flying Images’ to configure

Reviews

It is perfect

masse December 2, 2022

Thanks for giving me a free alternative to focus on my content so I can unleash my creativity. perfect plugin

Great Plugin

Tony Hisir October 31, 2022

Thank you for creating this plugin. I have been trying to figure out how to fix the “Properly size images” PageSpeed Insights warning and your plugin did it. I appreciate it.

Saved. My. Life. Best yet most underrated image optimization plugin!

tempo005 September 30, 2021

This plugin just performed better than both WP Compress and Optimole when it comes to website speed and Google Light House/Pagespeed Insights scores. It’s astonishingly good for a free plugin! Performs better than so-called best image optimization plugins, while being free and without needing us to create an account! Can’t recommend it enough!

The best plugin for image optimization!

rumenyanev April 22, 2021

This plugin is really great! Fast setup and speed up the website!

Excellent.

wp-anis August 31, 2021

Excellent plugin. Easy to use, and efficient. As the other set of plugins developed by Gigo. Just need manual Lazy load image exclusion to avoid CLS. Thanks.

CLS issues

svenv April 17, 2021

If it wasn’t for the CLS issues the lazyload causes, this plugin deserves 5 stars.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.4.14

• Increased DOM size
• Updated shortcut links
• Updated “Optimize more” tab
• Removed “Support us” tab
• Updated FAQ

2.4.13

• Fix: FacetWP compatibility

2.4.11

• Detect webp images

2.4.10

• Disable inbuilt lazy loading introduced in WP 5.5
• Security updates

2.4.9

• [NEW] Support for WP Fastest Cache

2.4.8

• [BUGFIX] Add f=auto to only images from Statically CDN

2.4.7

• [BUGFIX] Add f=auto query string for WebP delivery

2.4.6

• [NEW] Support for W3 Total Cache

2.4.5

• [NEW] New thresholds for lazy loading margin (upto 3000px)

2.4.4

• [BUGFIX] Inject JavaScript for lazy loading only when it’s enabled
• [BUGFIX] Prevent adding Statically if image URL is already from Statically CDN
• [UPDATE] Updated “Optimize More” tab for new plugins

2.4.3

• [NEW] New URL for purging Statically CDN (https://statically.io/purge)

2.4.2

• [BUGFIX] Compatibility with Brizy page builder

2.4.1

• [NEW] More keywords to default lazy loading exclude list
• [BUGFIX] Compatibility with exisiting lazy loading plugins

2.4.0

• [NEW] Skip class “skip-lazy” and data attribute “data-skip-lazy” by default

2.3.10

• [BUGFIX] Revert bug in last update

2.3.9

• [BUGFIX] HTML detection failed when first line is empty

2.3.8

• [BUGFIX] Exclude base64 images from adding compression

2.3.7

• [BUGFIX] Warning while adding CDN to background style images

2.3.6

• [REMOVED] Elementor background lazy loading due to buggy behaviour

2.3.5

• [BUGFIX] Unable to save posts after the last update

2.3.4

• [BUGFIX] Improved HTML detection in parser

2.3.3

• [BUGFIX] Responsive images – Restrict srcset to max width of image
• [BUGFIX] Responsive images – Don’t generate responsive images if width is unknown
• [ADDED] “no-lazy” to default lazy load exclude list

2.3.2

• [BUGFIX] Improved responsive images
• [REMOVED] Experimental container width for responsive images

2.3.1

• [BUGFIX] Background image URLs showing empty when compression is enabled

2.3.0

• [NEW] Restrict image width to container instead of device width (experimental)
• [BUGFIX] Repect “background:” or “background-image”
• [BUGFIX] Better compatibility with gravatar and external images
• [BUGFIX] Improved responsive images

2.2.6

• [BUGFIX] REVERT BACK! Changing ‘background’ to ‘background-image’ for compatibility
• [BUGFIX] CDN exclude now support background images inside style tags

2.2.5

• [BUGFIX] Changing ‘background-image’ to ‘background’ for compatibility

2.2.4

• [BUGFIX] Remove JS dependency for “Native only” lazy loading

2.2.3

• [BUGFIX] Lazy load Elementor background images
• [BUGFIX] Apply CDN to background images inside tags

2.2.2

• [BUGFIX] Warning when lazy load or cdn exclude list is empty

2.2.1

• [BUGFIX] CDN not working on relative paths
• [BUGFIX] Removing quotes in background image URLs for compatibility with Oxygen

2.2.0

• [NEW] Add CDN to WooCommerce dynamically injected thumbnails
• [NEW] Purge CDN link
• [BUGFIX] Fixed issue with double backslash
• [UPDATE] Removed gravatar.com from default CDN exclude list

2.1.1

• [UPDATE] Cross origin to Preconnect

2.1.0

• [NEW] DNS-Prefetch and Preconnect to Statically CDN
• [BUGFIX] Removes picture tags created by other plugins (like ShoprtPixel, WebP Express etc) for compatibility
• [BUGFIX] Support relative URLs

2.0.0

• Major update!
• [New] Free CDN powered by Statically
• [New] On the fly WebP
• [New] On the fly image compression
• [New] Lazy load backgroud images
• [Updated] Responsive/Adaptive images
• [Updated] Lazy loading method defaults to JavaScript only
• [Updated] Bottom margin of lazy loading defaults to 500px
• [Updated] Bottom margin now supports 0px to 1000px
• [Updated] Renamed from “Flying Images” to “Flying Images by WP Speed Matters”
• [New] Added ‘lazyloaded’ class to images when lazy loaded (only for JS based lazy loading)
• [New] FAQ tab
• [New] Support Us tab
• [New] Optimize More tab

1.3.3

• Bug fix – Change window.onload to DOMContentLoaded

1.3.2

• Bring back option to set bottom margin
• New lazy load method – JavaScript only

1.3.1

• Improve HTML and XML detection (also fixes issues with Oxygen builder)

1.3.0

• New feature: Add missing responsive images (srcset)
• Bug fix: Warning on countable function

1.2.9

• Bug fix – Prevent videos inside source tag from loading

1.2.8

• Bug fix in last update

1.2.7

• Bug fix for Jetpack integration and empty pages

1.2.6

• Removed styling for JS disabled browsers, for compatibility with Swift Performance

1.2.5

• Bug fix – Images loading multiple times when cache is disabled in Chrome

1.2.4

• Prevent conflicts with NextGen gallery plugin

1.2.3

• Added noscript tag for images (load images when JavaScript is disabled)

1.2.2

• Exclude keywords now looks from parent node (useful if your images doesn’t have a class or anything unique)
• Bug fix for picture tag (webp)

1.2.1

• Improved lazy loading for dynamic content
• Prevent parser from removing white spaces
• Performance improvements

1.2.0

• Lazy load images in picture tag (also fixes issues for webp)
• Automatic bottom margin height (removed option for custom margin)
• Performance improvements

1.1.2

• Bug fix – Lazy load images in dynamically injected content

1.1.1

• Support for Internet Explorer

1.1.0

• Rewrote HTML parser (fix breaking sites)
• Exclude images from lazy loading

1.0.1

• Renamed plugin from Nazy Load to Flying Images
• Typo fixes

1.0.0

• Initial release