🆚 Autoptimize vs. Lazy loading
- 📈 Lazy loading is much more popular than Autoptimize.
- 🌍 Lazy loading is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Performance optimization technology
Performance optimization technology
About
Autoptimize is a 
WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers 
CSS and scripts.
Native lazy loading is a technique to load non-critical images and iframes marked with the loading="lazy" attribute only when needed.
Headquarters
Lokeren, Belgium
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
html.spec.whatwg.orgPricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Pro$12.99/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Lazy loading performance optimization technology is 26 times more popular than Autoptimize.
Total websites
Market share
Performance Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lazy loading is more popular than Autoptimize in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Faroe Islands in the WordPress Plugins category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Afghanistan in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Faroe Islands in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lazy loading is more popular than Autoptimize in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#705
#857
#941
#2,950
#4,531
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Partytown🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.