Active installations100Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 2 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records Lazy Embed version 1.6.3 as active, updated 2y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.5.
Overview
About this plugin
Videos are one of the largest assets that can be loaded on a webpage, and as such are one of the largest contributors to slow performance and high carbon emissions.
In fact, adding a Youtube embed to a page using the latest default WordPress theme, increased the page transfer size from 21 kb to 973 kb, and loaded an additional 27 resources. That’s an increase in transfer size of 4533%. Adding a Vimeo video increased the transfer from 21 kb to 276 kb, an increase in transfer size of 1214%, and loaded an additional 7 resources.
The Lazy Embed plugin defers the loading of any resource required for playing the video until the video is requested to be played. It does this by adding a srcdoc attribute to the iframe which shows in place of the normal iframe content.
Currently the following third parties are supported
Youtube
Vimeo
Dailymotion
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
embed
performance
sustainability
vimeo
youtube
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 6.5
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.5.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.5
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.2.0 · PHP 7.1
Update activity22 May 20242y ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
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Tracking & source
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