How To Fix Lazy Loading Gravatars in WordPress Comments

Posted by kaitherin on January 23rd, 2018

Gravatars stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar”. It causes extra HTTP requests. Slows down the site’s page load speed.  Lazy load Gravatars especially help, if a blog on your website has a lot of comments.

What is a Gravatar?

It is the user profile picture next to their name. These images are called “avatars.” Most of the images/pictures are used in WordPress comments and author bio sections.

WordPress uses a specific type of avatar called “Gravatars.” It follows you around the web and automatically appears when you post a comment on a WordPress site.

Lazy Loading Gravatars in WordPress Comments

• First of all, you can install and activate the BJ Lazy Load plugin on your WordPress site.  

• About the installing process, see our blog on how to install a WordPress Plugin.

• Beside activation, you wish to follow the path as Settings » BJ Lazy Load page to configure plugin settings.

• Then apply the lazy load feature to your content, text widgets, post thumbnails, images, iframes, and much more with easy way.

   

   

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