Lazy Load for Comments: Optimize WordPress Comments

Last Updated on 16th May 2023 by Ajmer Singh

Did you know comments are also using resources to load?

If you are using Gtmetrix to check your page speed then check the waterfall section.

There you will find all the requests with load times including comments.

Comments are taking time to load and impact the overall performance of your website page performance.

And as we all know the new algorithm where google officially confirms that website loading speed is one of the main ranking factors.

Bloggers take this seriously and start improving their core web vitals.

I already achieved a 95+ performance score and told about that in most of my articles.

But in short, to achieve a loading speed under 1 sec you have to,

So, how to optimize comments on WordPress websites?

To avoid this issue, we are going to share a plugin that lazy load your comments and improves your page performance.

Name of the plugin: Lazy load for comments

Author: Joel James

Active Installations: 5K+

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How To Optimize Comments In WordPress?

At your dashboard (on the left), click on settings-discussion.

Scroll down, above the avatars section, you will see the Lazy load comments section.

Then select from the drop-down and check how you want to load the comments.

On-scroll:

On-scroll works the same as lazy load images. The comment appears only when you scroll down, not at the same time.

On-click:

We are using on-click on our site. It creates a button type”LOAD COMMENTS”, your comments appear when you click on load comments.

No lazy load:

Disables lazy load.

Some Features:

After these settings, check your score on GTmetrix again. Also, check the waterfall tab for a better understanding.

So, hope you guys understand how to optimize comments in WordPress.

Have any questions, comment below.