Best Tool for Lazyloading (Theme or Plugin?)

  • Resolved jetxpert

    (@jetxpert)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there,

    Images can now be lazyloaded using either a theme’s option, SG optimizer, or some other 3rd party plugin such as WP Rocket.

    Based on the above, which one would you recommend and why? Impartiality appreciated!

    Thank you!

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  • Plugin Author Hristo Pandjarov

    (@hristo-sg)

    SiteGround Representative

    On a SiteGround account I would use only SG Optimizer. Use Lazy Loading with the SG Optimizer plugin – we now cover everything, including videos and iframes and make sure that everything works with the other optimizations while with other plugins that’s not guaranteed. Furthermore, Lazy Load in the theme is a BAD BAD idea and I wouldn’t ever enable it there. This said, Lazy Loading is coming to the WordPress core and we will make sure that our plugin works well with that too while a theme update and / or using different plugins may be more problematic in the long run.

    Thread Starter jetxpert

    (@jetxpert)

    Hi Hristo,

    Thank you for your quick reply.

    (1) Why is Lazy Loading in the theme a bad idea? It’s been working for us for quite some time.

    (2) We activated SG Optimizer’s lazy loading feature for our website (Avada Theme) and noticed that SG Optimizer failed to lazy load many images (yes, cache purged many times). As a result, ten (10) more resources (images) were loaded onto our website thus increasing our website loading time by .5 seconds!

    Following a prior post, SG Optimizer needs to study the Avada theme code to ensure it can lazy load its images.

    So, based on the above, we have switched back to lazy loading in the theme.

    Again, thank you!

    Plugin Author Hristo Pandjarov

    (@hristo-sg)

    SiteGround Representative

    Lazy Loading is well into plugin territory. We’re talking about the theoretical best and for me that’s plugin, then in core. Avada do show images through shortcode which prevents lazy loading from working properly. That will be the case once it gets into the WP core I think. Nevertheless, do use whatever works best for your own site.

    I had the same issue and reached Siteground to ask for solutions.

    Fusion Builder live and SG Optimizer, both plugins are now active and running. The trick was to disable the option at SG Optimizer > Frontend Optimization > Minify the HTML Output.

    But it has a downside impact on the website performance, increasing the page load with more 0.4 seconds. I’ll try to find solutions to workarounds to the Minify html output, with siteground or Avada.

    Since other pluggins don’t have issues with lazy loading, I guess this would be a bug on SG optimizer and hope they solve in on next update.

    Cheers!

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