Creating great content on Joomla! is one thing, making it accessible is another. Lazy loading is one solution that combines the two without altering your workflow. With progressive lazy loading, images load only if and when needed. If the reader never reaches an image on the webpage, it never gets downloaded. Now, lazy loading is also available on Joomla!
The benefits of lazy loading are many; pages load faster, which means that the user experience is better, SEO scores soar and your Joomla content is more accessible to users on low-end devices or slow internet access. A few weeks ago, we presented an improvement on the basic lazy loading recipe on WordPress. Today, we are presenting it for Joomla! too, but before that, a look at how you can enable progressive lazy loading on Joomla!