Category: lazy loading

Five Techniques to Lazy Load Images for Website Performance

This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. With images making up a whopping 65% of all web content, page load time on websites can easily become an issue. Even when properly optimized, images can weigh quite a bit. This ca...

Lazy-Loading Disqus Comments

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with optimizing performance through lazy-loading. Recently, I’ve written on how to lazy-load Google Maps and on how to lazy-load responsive Google Adsense. Now it’s time for Disqus, a service for embedding comments on your website. It’s a great service. It eliminates t...

Lazy Loading Responsive Adsense Ads

You’ve been hard at work optimizing your site. You’ve already done things like lazy-loading Google Maps and been wondering if there was anything else you could do. For example, is there anything we can do to improve the loading of ads? Good news, there is some things you can do. You can respect user’s...

Lazy Loading Images with the Igaro App JavaScript Framework

A while back I wrote about the Igaro App JS Framework (disclaimer: I’m the framework author). “Sigh! Not another framework” I hear you say (and probably rightly so). Well, let me tell you what sets Igaro app apart. Igaro App is NOT yet another framework that plugs into your HTML. It’s a complete...