Native Lazyload
by Felix Arntz · WordPress.org page · Website
Native Lazyload has 5,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 91,184 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on December 6, 2019, tested up to WordPress 5.3.23.
Native Lazyload at a glance
Is Native Lazyload well maintained?
Native Lazyload reviews and ratings
31 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
31 reviews
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It lazy loads my popups
How can I unable the lazy loading of my popups ?
othman19 -
Google update your products PLEASE
Im really happy that Google is creating plugins for our projects BUT keep them up-to-date please... you're the God of the internet, a trillion dollar company.
NikosTsolakos -
Native lazy loading - the only viable lazy loading solution
This plugin adds loading="lazy" and then, the browser lazy loads the image. I think that native lazy loading performed by the browser is the only viable solution for lazy loading. For many years, I tried to implement lazy loading on my websites. I faced many issues. Once images were not crawled. Once my website was penalized because of cloaking. Versions differed depending on the client. I am enough with javascript scripts that slow down the pageload and negatively impact the pagespeed insight. I think that for now and in the future, the native lazy loading is the only way to go for lazy loading.
bloup -
Broken on safari
Hey guys - Can you please fix this in the latest Safari. Thanks!
gkwebph -
It does not improve my sites
First, did not break my site and it did lazyload most of the page images. It does not lazyload images if they are served from a different host. Example, unbounce, etc. I will add another caveat, all of my images and their versions are always carefully resized and highly compressed. Checked with lighthouse and my score took a hit downwards. 13 points down on performance score. I tested on my Staging area, uncached. FCP went from 2.1s to 4.2s, all of the other metrics, including time to interactive, CPU idle, speed index and First Meaningful Paint took a dive. I will chuck this to I was already hyperoptimized and lazy loading is not truly needed on my site/s. But I would advise others to try it out (not on their live site) and test speed with Google Lighthouse before and after.
havig -
Does what it says
Seems to work well. On browsers that don't support lazy loading, it doesn't seem to load the images as soon as I would like. As in there can be a bit of a delay between scrolling and the image appearing on screen. Not to bad though. Not going to worry about it as native image loading is the way of the future and will be implemented into more browsers.
shawn caza
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Details
Lazy-loads media using the native browser feature.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- lazy
- lazyload
- load
- loading
- native
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- Version
- 1.0.2
- Last updated
- Dec 6, 2019
- First published
- Sep 5, 2019
- Requires WordPress
- 4.7
- Tested up to
- 5.3.23
- Requires PHP
- 7.0
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Native Lazyload FAQ
How many active installs does Native Lazyload have?
WordPress.org reports 5,000+ active installs for Native Lazyload as of September 7, 2026.
Is Native Lazyload still maintained?
The last release was on December 6, 2019, more than a year ago. WordPress.org shows a warning on plugins that go this long without an update.
Is Native Lazyload free?
Native Lazyload is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.