🆚 Lazy loading vs. Perfmatters
- 📈 Lazy loading is much more popular than Perfmatters.
- 🌍 Lazy loading is more popular in all countries.
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About
Native lazy loading is a technique to load non-critical images and iframes marked with the loading="lazy" attribute only when needed.
Perfmatters is a commercial WordPress performance plugin that reduces page load times by stripping unused code and disabling unnecessary site elements.
It includes a script manager for per-page or per-device asset disabling, toggles to remove emojis and embeds, database optimization tools, lazy loading of images, iframes, and videos, including YouTube preview thumbnails, and local hosting of the
Google Analytics script to reduce external DNS lookups.
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Pricing
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Performance Optimization category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in France in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Spain in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Turkey in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Romania in the Performance Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ 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 3,824,193 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.




