Best above-the-fold plugins for WordPress
The most popular above-the-fold plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Smart Image Loader leads with 90+ active installs, ahead of Inline JS Block for Gutenberg (60+) and Lazy Load Fix for Divi (50+). All 6 plugins tagged “above-the-fold” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 above-the-fold plugins
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Smart Image LoaderThe most installed above-the-fold plugin, with 90+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 2.
Inline JS Block for Gutenberg60+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 3.
Lazy Load Fix for Divi50+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Inline CSS Block for Gutenberg10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 5.
AAC Scoring10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
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jQuery & Plugins Asynchronous Loader10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
All 6 plugins tagged “above-the-fold”
Smart Image Loader
Down in the last 7 days:48#17,181by bypr.nils8 years ago
Smart Image Loader is a fire-and-forget priority and lazy loader for image sources. Can be a huge performance boost especially for one pagers.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Inline JS Block for Gutenberg
Down in the last 7 days:10#19,370by Adnan8 years ago
Inline JS block helps in adding above the fold JS or for your Advanced customization needs.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lazy Load Fix for Divi
Down in the last 7 days:62#20,705by jerrystewart992 months ago
Provides precise control of which media (images) are lazy-loaded for optimum page load performance.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Inline CSS Block for Gutenberg
Down in the last 7 days:2,064#41,565by Adnan8 years ago
Inline CSS block helps in adding above the fold CSS or for your Advanced customization needs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AAC Scoring
Down in the last 7 days:6,838#45,625by Texiwill9 years ago
Improves Pagespeed/GTMetrix/SEMrush/Yslow scores for Twenty Fourteen and other themes by reducing round trips, moving core CSS above the fold.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
jQuery & Plugins Asynchronous Loader
Down in the last 7 days:4,911#47,653by Vitalii Rizo9 years ago
This plugin asynchronously loads jQuery and its plugins without "jQuery is undefined" errors.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day