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A faster website! (aka defer.js)

By Mai Nhut Tan

Description

⚡️ Experience the speed of a native, lightning-fast lazy loader. ✅ Backward compatibility for legacy browsers (IE9+). 💯 SEO-friendly. 🧩 Lazy-load everything.

This plugin empowers you to optimize various elements, including image tags, videos, audio, iframes, stylesheets, and JavaScript.

Leveraging tips endorsed by seasoned web experts and harnessing the latest web technologies for resource lazy-loading, this plugin ensures your website operates at peak efficiency.

If you find this plugin valuable, please consider leaving a 5-star review (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️).

What people loves

  • ⚡️ Native API, blazing fast
  • 👍 Legacy browsers support (IE9+)
  • 🥇 SEO friendly
  • ✅ Very easy to use
  • 💯 No dependencies, no jQuery
  • 🤝 Works well with your favorite frameworks
  • 🧩 Uses IntersectionObserver API for optimized CPU usage
  • 🏞 Supports for responsive images, both srcset and sizes attributes

💡 Tip: To archive better result, you should consider disabling all optimization features (Eg. lazy-loading, HTML minification, JS minification, etc.) by other plugins.

We recommend you use it with another page-caching plugin for best performance.

Browser support

This plugin also works perfectly on popular browsers, including Internet Explorer 9 and later.

  • 🖥 IE9+ / Microsoft EDGE
  • 🖥 Firefox 4+
  • 🖥 Safari 3+
  • 🖥 Chrome
  • 🖥 Opera
  • 📱 Android 4+
  • 📱 iOS 3.2+

Powered by defer.js, defer.php

defer.js
🥇 A super small, super efficient library that helps you lazy load almost everything like images, video, audio, iframes as well as stylesheets, and JavaScript.

defer.php
🚀 A PHP library that focuses on minimizing payload size of HTML document and optimizing processing on the browser when rendering the web page.

Key features

  • [x] Embed defer.js plugin
  • [x] Normalize DOM elements
  • [x] Fix missing meta tags
  • [x] Fix missing media attributes
  • [x] Preconnect to required origins
  • [x] Preload key requests
  • [x] Prefetch key requests
  • [x] Browser-level image lazy-loading for the web
  • [x] Lazy-load offscreen and hidden iframes
  • [x] Lazy-load offscreen and hidden videos
  • [x] Lazy-load offscreen and hidden images
  • [x] Lazy-load CSS background images
  • [x] Reduce the impact of JavaScript
  • [x] Defer non-critical CSS requests
  • [x] Defer third-party assets
  • [x] Add fallback <noscript> tags for lazy-loaded objects
  • [x] Add custom HTML while browser is rendering the page (splashscreen)
  • [x] Attribute to ignore optimizing the element
  • [x] Attribute to ignore lazyloading the element
  • [x] Optimize AMP document
  • [x] Minify HTML output

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Released under the GNU General Public License v2 license.
https://code.shin.company/defer-wordpress/blob/master/LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2019 Mai Nhut Tan <shin@shin.company>

Screenshots

  • Achieving a perfect 100/100 score in Google PageSpeed Test!
  • Defer.js empowers you to easily accelerate your website by deferring resource loading.

Installation

  1. Upload the defer-wordpress folder to the ./wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin via the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

While this plugin maintains compatibility with PHP 5.6, we advise running your server on PHP version 7.3 or higher for optimal performance.

FAQ

What is defer.js?

🥇 Defer.js is an exceptionally lightweight, native performance library designed for lazy-loading resources such as JS, CSS, images, and iframes.

With Defer.js, you can easily enhance your website’s speed.

Why should I implement lazy-loading?

Loading all page contents at once can slow down your website’s loading speed. Users dislike staring at a blank white page and tend to leave quickly.

Implementing lazy loading can alleviate resource contention, resulting in improved performance.

Why should I use this plugin?

This plugin offers practical solutions for optimizing on-page resource downloads, based on recommendations from Google Developers available at this website.

You could manually implement these optimizations, but it’s time-consuming and requires expertise.

How does this plugin function?

This plugin optimizes a wide range of elements, including image tags, videos, audio, iframes, stylesheets, and JavaScript.

It incorporates best practices endorsed by experienced web experts and leverages the latest web technologies for lazy-loading resources.

This includes features like creating “data-src” attributes for media and utilizing the loading=”lazy” attribute recently introduced by Google Developers.

High performance and precision

Additionally, this plugin utilizes the DOM to analyze website structure, delivering precise results and outperforming other plugins that rely on HTML text processing.

Give it a try, and you’ll likely be pleasantly surprised by the performance improvements it brings to your website.

What about performance and compatibility?

We’ve thoroughly tested this plugin alongside numerous others and haven’t encountered any significant conflicts.

For optimal use of this plugin, consider disabling other optimization features (e.g., lazy-loading, HTML minification, JS minification) offered by other plugins.

We also recommend using it in conjunction with a page-caching plugin for the best performance.

Reviews

Excellent plugin

August 25, 2023 1 reply
Amazing plugin, really works. It deserves an update to improve speed with atual requirements.

No support, doesn’t work

September 29, 2021 1 reply
Plugin is not supported and score on Google Page Speed test and Gmetrix test is better without this plugin...

very simple to use without concerning broke sites

May 15, 2021 1 reply
I am very happy and satisfy with it, it's a lightweight and very promising plugin. Just install the plugin and keep everything default, It will boost your page speed significantly. In some cases, you can manually exclude by CSS class if you have elements that don't want to be lazyloaded. The developer is a very responsive and quick reply. I am using oxygen builder, If it has a pro version (lifetime deal) for early birds adopters, I'd like to buy it. Great plugin! deserver 5 stars!

incredibly practical and efficient

April 14, 2021 1 reply
easy configuration and very efficient performance plugin. It was the only plugin that really managed to make an efficient defer and lazy on my site, without errors! my lighthouse score for Mobile devices jumped from 22 to 84 by combining this plugin + plugin unload feature by Asset Cleanup Pro. Note: for those who use Cloudflare, it will be necessary to disable "mirage" if you want to use the plugin's lazy (it seemed more efficient than Mirage cloudflare)
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Changelog

2.6: Fixed bugs related to JSON requests

2.5: Addressed deprecation errors for compatibility with newer PHP versions.

2.4: Made minor updates and improvements to the documentation.

2.3: Resolved various bugs and implemented improvements.

2.2: Enhanced the codebase for better performance.

2.1: Fixed bugs (see https://code.shin.company/defer.js/issues/82).

2.0: Upgraded to version 2 and renamed the plugin.

1.1.15: Fixed bugs present in defer.js versions 1.1.13 and 1.1.14.

1.1.14: Improved overall performance.

1.1.13: Fixed specific issues affecting Firefox.

1.1.12: Addressed problems related to Internet Explorer and ensured compatibility with the latest WordPress version.

1.1.11: Fixed a security issue (CVE-2019-18888).

1.1.10+5: Removed external resources, bug fixes, and general improvements.

1.1.10: Resolved various bugs and introduced improvements.

1.1.9: Corrected encoding issues related to the mb_detect_encoding() function.

1.1.8: Updated defer.php library to version 1.0.15.

1.1.7: Fixed issues affecting Firefox and made code improvements.

1.1.6: Updated the library version and enhanced JavaScript execution order.

1.1.5: Hotfix for escaping HTML node values.

1.1.4: Implemented numerous improvements.

1.1.3: Unified lazy attributes with other plugins.

1.1.2: Fixed known issues with gtm.js and improved plugin caching.

1.1.1: Addressed small bugs, including IE polyfill, missing meta tags, and preloading ads.

1.1.0: Added a settings page.

1.0.9: Enhanced preloading code.

1.0.8: Fixed issues related to open web fonts.

1.0.7: Optimized script loader, polyfill, and scrset.

1.0.6: Addressed minor bugs, including color placeholders and CSS issues.

1.0.5: Migrated to defer.js library.

1.0.0 to 1.0.4: Initial implementation and development phases.

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