Best lazysizes plugins for WordPress
The most popular lazysizes plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Lazy Loader leads with 8K+ active installs, ahead of lazysizes (600+). All 2 plugins tagged “lazysizes” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 lazysizes plugins
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Lazy LoaderThe most installed lazysizes plugin, with 8K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 49 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 2.lazysizes
600+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
All 2 plugins tagged “lazysizes”

Lazy Loader
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,305by Florian Brinkmann2 years ago
Lazy loading plugin that supports images, iFrames, video and audio elements and uses the lightweight lazysizes script. With manual modification of the …
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.7(49)
- Downloads
- 42/day
lazysizes
Up in the last 7 days:2#8,348by Patrick Sletvold6 years ago
High performance and SEO friendly lazy loader for images, iframes and more. Many features, like low-res Blurhash placeholders and image fade-in
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day