We hated it when Yahoo sold Smush to these marketing guys: WPMU DEV (Owned by Incsub of Australia).
They added a new feature that is old as the hills: lazy load. A feeble attempt to differentiate the image compression plugin.
The best Lazy Load plugin has no weight and no cost:
That’s right. Same lazy load feature as the WP Rocket paid plugin – for free.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe-ebooks.com/duplicate-wp-rocket-plugin-features-without-a-49-annual-license-fee/
Read about how to get the other Smush features here for less.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe-ebooks.com/crush-me-whats-wrong-with-wp-smush-image-optimization-plugin/
There are various free lazy-loading plugins that add no extra load time to your pages – and also are free.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/lazy-loading-and-infinite-scrolling-for-faster-loading-pages/
Godspeed-
Steve Teare
performance engineer
Instead of band-aid approaches, we drill down to the root cause of your slow site. This is origin optimization. Also known as site tuning. To do this, we analyze site components:
- Hosting
- Theme
- Plugins
- Scripts and third-party services.
- Images and media library.
- We minimize globally loading plugin effects.
Find out more details about Site Tuning – Get Speed!
