Site speed ...

A vital SEO factor ... and a never ending problem ...

A problem that involves (too) many factors. Not so long ago I published a tutorial addressing the most important ones ...

Here it is again ...

Website speed optimization - Definitive guide

These factors will have a major impact on site speed ...

But there are many other ways and small tricks that can give you an additional speed boost ...

And very often, we tend to forget these "minor" factors ... Which is wrong, because several minor improvements can - and eventually will - make a big difference ...

And I already created a few tutorials on these issues ...

How to improve your site speed on mobile devices

How to increase your site speed with lazy loaded images

As you can see, the last method is using the lazy load feature to "dynamically" load the images on a given page ... What does it mean? Well, basically, you are "delaying" the load of all those images which are not visible in the above the fold area.

In plain English: instead of loading all your images at once, lazy loading downloads only the images that will be visible on users screen. It replaces all other images with a placeholder image, and when the user scrolls down, your website will load the "new" images that are now visible in the browser’s viewing area.

Now here's the thing ...

Comments will also increase the page size ... which of course will affect the load time and the user experience on your site. Loading a bunch of comments and Gravatars will take some time and is completely "pointless" while the visitor is seeing the top of the page ...

So it's recommended to implement the lazy loading solution for comments too ... By not loading the comments right away, you can significantly improve the page load speed especially when you already have a lot of comments. And needless to say, it also improves user experience on slower internet connections and smaller screens ...

So I've decided to create this short tutorial to show you how easy is to set up a lazy-load solution for your Wordpress comments.

Interested?

Let's do this!