Lazy Load Images

Lazy loading below-the-fold images improves your website speed, your visitors’ experience and yor PageSpeed Insights performance score. Pixy’s intelligent lazy load feature applies the lazy loading behaviour to all images except for those that are excluded for being above-the-fold. You can select the number of images to exclude manually, and it will apply to every page on the site.

LQIP (Low Quality Image Placeholders)

Pixy’s Lazy Load feature includes LQIP so your website can look good even if an image has not yet been fully loaded when the visitor scrolls to it. Instead of an empty box, or a generic placeholder, a very small WebP version of the original image is loaded, and a blur effect is applied to it. LQIP images use WebP instead of AVIF because conversion is faster and WebP can be loaded progressively. The full-size AVIF image then loads over the WebP and thanks to the blur effect, there is no visual “snap” when this happens.

Excluding above-the-fold images manually

With the buttons provided in the Inteligent Lazy Load settings, you can select the number of images from the top of the page to exclude from lazy loading. These are usually your website’s logo, and the LCP image.