Lazy loading solutions (recommendation) for offscreen images?

[Nadine]

Nadine

June 6, 2018 at 6:49 am

Hi,

I’ve been looking into lazy loading solutions so that offscreen images are only fetched once the get into the view. This is a Google Audit Performance (page speed insights and lighthouse) recommendation and at least for Mobile with not too fast connectivity this makes pages load much faster.

Do you have some recommendation here? I’d guess than when using image carousels and galleries (like we do) this could cause side-effects.

Looking through all those lazy loading plugins I’d say that up to now I’d prefer Lazy Loader (plugin link, github link) which is more or less a wrapper around lazysizes (*Login to see link

So since this is just a wrapper around the lazysizes JS library I wonder if some kind of lazyloading is already included in Virtue Premium. Or if something like this is planned as an option.