In this video, I’m breaking down lazy loading and, more importantly, how to lazy load images in WordPress properly. The core idea is simple: not every image on a page needs to load the second a visitor lands. If someone hasn’t scrolled to your mid-article images yet, loading them immediately just burns server resources and bandwidth for no reason. I show this in the browser inspector, where you can literally see a whole stack of images being fetched right away—and how that adds up fast. Then I walk you through doing this the right way with Optimole. After installing the plugin and enabling image handling, Optimole takes over: it lazy loads images and also optimizes them so they’re smaller without looking worse. The big “gotcha” I call out is above-the-fold images: you don’t want to lazy load anything the user sees immediately, because it hurts user experience and can tank your LCP (Largest Contentful Paint), which Google cares about. In Optimole, I use the settings to skip the first images and exclude above-the-fold items, add a fast placeholder color, and enable smart image scaling so mobile users don’t download oversized files. The end result: fewer images loaded upfront and a much lighter page payload.