Lazy Load for Videos WordPress Plugin
Speed up your site by replacing embedded Youtube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image. Visitors simply click on the image to play the video
This plugin improves page load times and increases your Google PageSpeed Score. It replaces embedded Youtube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image. By loading the videos only when the user clicks on the preview image – using jQuery –, no unnecessary JavaScript is loaded. Especially on sites with many embedded videos this will make your visitors happy.
Demo on the developer’s website: kevinw.de/lazy-load-videos/
You want to enhance this plugin? Please contribute on Github. I'm looking for a WordPress enthusiast who further develops this plugin; I'll give you guidance and promote you and the plugin.
Some additional features:
- Display video titles on preview images
- Pre-roll and post-
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Sites running Lazy Load for Videos, click to open one
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Usage of Lazy Load for Videos over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 359 to 525 — up 166 (+46.2%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 525 | -11 |
| June 2024 | 536 | +4 |
| May 2024 | 532 | +6 |
| April 2024 | 526 | +2 |
| March 2024 | 524 | +16 |
| February 2024 | 508 | +8 |
| January 2024 | 500 | +17 |
| December 2023 | 483 | +53 |
| November 2023 | 430 | +8 |
| October 2023 | 422 | +9 |
| September 2023 | 413 | +44 |
| August 2023 | 369 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 369 | +10 |
| June 2023 | 359 | — |
Themes used with Lazy Load for Videos
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Astra |
| 2 | Divi |
| 3 | Generatepress |
| 4 | Genesis |
| 5 | Avada |
| 6 | Acabado |
| 7 | Enfold |
| 8 | Themify-ultra |
| 9 | Generatepress_child |
| 10 | Divi-child |
| 11 | Enfold-child |
| 12 | Boombox-child |
| 13 | Salient |
| 14 | Newspaper |
| 15 | Flatsome-child |
| 16 | Circles |
| 17 | Flatsome |
| 18 | Boombox |
| 19 | Twentyfourteen |
| 20 | Salient-child |
Sites running Lazy Load for Videos
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