This plugin’s purpose is to optimize the performance of embeds in WordPress, such as Tweets, YouTube videos, TikToks, and others. The current optimizations include: Lazy loading embeds just before they come into view. Adding dns-prefetch links for embeds in the initial viewport. Reserving space for embeds that resize to reduce layout shifting. Lazy loading embeds improves performance because embeds are generally very resource-intensive, so lazy loading them ensures that they don’t compete with resources when the page is loading. Lazy loading of IFRAME-based embeds is handled s...
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