I have been have images not loading with the feature of the theme of images not loading the first time of load on Firefox and Edge. IE latest and Chrome latest works fine. I have to refresh the Firefox and Edge browsers to work the images but I have ads from Adsterra on the website and I know its not them causing the problem because I am also using WP Rocket Caching plugin and I switched over to their lazy loading and it works fine on Firefox and Edge and the rest of the browsers.
I also see no smaller page size with lazy load from theme but when switched over to WP Rocket lazy load my page size went from before 1.5 mb to 784 kb and http requests from 109 to 45 requests on WP Rocket. That is the reason for lazy load is to speed up the site and make those two things smaller too. Is there a reason why the theme lazy load does not work like WP Rockets?
I am going to stick with WP Rockets lazy load for now. Since it works properly.
Actually WP Rocket wasn’t working to well with lazy load either but just on Firefox. So I went back to the theme lazy load and just uninstalling Firefox and trying out Opera. Something seriously wrong with Firefox. I use four different browser to see the website and so far Edge, IE11, and Chrome load right. See how Opera does.
Yep, it was Firefox. Opera works just fine. So I am using the lazy load from theme and no issues now. I don’t understand why Firefox is getting so bad. It used to be pretty good like Chrome and now it is really bad browser. At least for me it is. I am going to stay away from Firefox from now on. I just hope people will switch to something else to view my website because it just has issues loading my website for some reason. I might lose visitors if they do use Firefox as their main browser though.
Hi doucare1971,
I have checked your site on Firefox’s latest version: http://screencast.com/t/nnFNA5MZY and found no issues. It seems that this isn’t constant or it is not happening anymore. On chrome it’s also working fine: http://screencast.com/t/B4Ltdre1s
I’m not sure how wp rocket’s lazy loading feature is developed so I can’t give you an accurate answer on this. I also tested this on our demo site but found no issues in this regard so eventually this might indicate an issue with your theme/wp configuration.
Hope you’ve managed to solve this!
Thanks for the message!
Chrome has always worked fine. It was just Firefox it would not load images and I would have to refresh. I switched to Opera to replace Firefox with no issues. If you are not seeing issues then I am not going to worry about it. I was just worried that other visitors would have problems. Since no one is coming to me with that issue on my website via contact page, then I am going to ignore it.
There is that page size and http requests thing that kind of bothers me though. Lazy load as I have read online is supposed to lower the page size like WP Rocket does and less http requests too but the lazy load with theme does not do this at all. It does not affect the page size or lower http requests at all. I am sticking with the theme one but I used the WP Rocket one for short time and tested it and it did speed up website by about almost half a second. Lazy load on theme is average 1.5 to 2.0 seconds and WP Rocket is 1 second to 1.2 seconds on loading website.
Only bringing that up if you guys could figure how to get that done with your lazy loading, if not then I won’t worry about it either. I like you lazy load because it just seems to load the images better.
Until I hear from any visitors that the images are not loading, then I won’t do anything.
I just got rid of the ads on website and it works flawlessly. So I guess it was the ads that causes the issues. No matter what I use. I tried almost all networks. Oh well.
Hi,
Glad you’ve nailed it eventually! We’ll consider your suggestion and notes here concerning requests and page size if we decide to improve or change theme’s lazy loading animation in the future.
Thanks for the message!
