Lazy Load

Lazy Load is jQuery plugin designed to load images or other content with delay purposely in order to optimize page loading speed. The principle of the work is the following: images located below visible screen area won’t load until page is scrolled down. Plugin allows loading images with animation effect: fadein. Thus images can be loaded from left to right and vise versa.

Basically, page won’t load until all the pages content text, images, scripts are loaded by browser. Lazy Load plugin makes content appear in parts, in this way visitors don’t have to wait until all the content is loaded. It also makes content appear smoothly, in rather amiable way.

Lazy Load plugin script is usually implemented in HTML or PHP files. In CMS and e-commerce themes, plugin can be disabled from admin panel.

One of important rules for plugin usage is to assign classes to different groups of images: notify plugin what images should be loaded with lazy load effect.