Google Releases Native Lazyload Plugin for WordPress

In the latest release of Chrome browser (76), a new “loading” attribute that supports native lazy loading in the browser has been added. An implementation for WordPress core is still under discussion. In the meantime, plugins that enable this for WordPress sites are starting to pop up, and Google has just released one of its own. Native Lazyload was created by Google engineer Felix Arntz and the team behind the official AMP and PWA plugins for WordPress. It lazy loads images and iframes with the new loading attribute for browsers that support it. It also includes a fallback mechanism for