Lazy Load Control For Elementor – Remove the Lazy Load attribute from specific images in Elementor

78 Quality Score

Active Installs

16/30

At roughly 3,000 active installs it is a small, niche plugin, well below category leaders like LiteSpeed Cache at 7 million installs, so adoption is modest.

Update Freshness

25/25

Updated within the same release cycle as this review and tested against WordPress 7.0, the maintenance signals are strong for such a lightweight utility.

User Rating

15/15

Fifteen ratings producing a 98 out of 100 score is impressive, though the small sample size means the number should be read with some caution.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened and zero resolved gives no evidence either way, hence the middling score rather than a confirmation of healthy support.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatible back to WordPress 4.6 and PHP 7.2 with WordPress 7.0 testing confirmed, so it will run on virtually any modern Elementor site.

Scores higher than 62% of indexed plugins

About

Remove the Lazy Load attribute from specific images in Elementor.

Active Installs 3k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.9/5

Last Updated 2026-05-21 9:20am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.6+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

Requires PHP 7.2+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

This plugin removes the native browser lazy-load attribute from images you select inside Elementor, allowing above-the-fold or hero images to load eagerly so they render immediately. It targets a narrow performance problem: the WordPress core lazy-loading behaviour can hurt Largest Contentful Paint on critical imagery. It does not offer broader caching, image optimisation, or layout shift fixes.

Who It's For

Best for Elementor users on content-heavy sites where a key hero image, product shot, or featured article graphic is being flagged in PageSpeed Insights as an LCP issue and native lazy-loading is clearly the cause. Photographers, online magazines, and product showcase sites will benefit most because their primary visual sits near the top of every page. Site owners comfortable editing each image individually in Elementor will get the cleanest results.

Who Should Skip It

Skip this plugin if you do not use Elementor, if your LCP element is not an image, or if a full caching or image optimisation plugin can address your Core Web Vitals gap without a surgical fix. Anyone running LiteSpeed Cache, Jetpack Boost, or a comparable optimisation suite likely does not need another tool to manage lazy-loading behaviour.

The Bottom Line

A focused, well-maintained micro-plugin that solves one specific Elementor + lazy-load + LCP problem and does it well, earning a 77.77 overall quality score. With only 3,000 installs and no support history on record, it is a sensible pick only when its narrow job matches your exact issue. Most sites will get better value from a broader optimisation tool listed in the alternatives.

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