jekyll-loading-lazy

This plugin adds loading="lazy" to all img and iframe tags on your Jekyll site. No configuration needed.
If a loading attribute is already present nothing is changed.

loading="lazy" causes images and iframes to load lazily without any JavaScript. Browser support is growing.
If a browser does not support the loading attribute, it will load the resource just like it would normally.

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Installation

1. Add the following to your site's Gemfile:

   gem 'jekyll-loading-lazy'

2. add the following to your site's _config.yml:

   plugins:
     - jekyll-loading-lazy

   Note: if jekyll --version is less than 3.5 use:

   gems:
     - jekyll-loading-lazy

3. In your terminal, execute:

   bundle

4. (re)start your Jekyll server with:

   jekyll serve

Usage

Install the plugin as described above. That's basically all there is.

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Prevent lazy loading

In case you want to prevent loading some images/iframes lazily, add loading="eager" to their tags. This might be useful to prevent flickering of images during navigation (e.g. the site's logo).

See the following examples to prevent lazy loading.

Markdown example

![an example](/image.jpg){:loading='eager'}

This example assumes you're using Kramdown (Jekyll is using it by default).

HTML example

<img src="/image.jpg" alt="an example" loading="eager" />

Contributing

1. Fork this repository
2. Create your branch (git checkout -b feat/my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add cool feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feat/my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Testing

rake

Credits

Thanks to @keithmifsud's jekyll-target-blank whereon this Jekyll plugin largely bases.