{"id":841,"date":"2024-05-07T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/spai-lazy-load-threshold\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:42:02","password":"","slug":"spai-lazy-load-threshold","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/spai-lazy-load-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Settings &#8211; Lazy-load threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThis option sets how early a lazy-loaded image is loaded before entering the visible area of the page (viewport). For example, the default of 500 px means that an image is loaded when it&#8217;s closer than 500 px to the viewport. A higher value means that an image will be loaded very early, which may trigger some warnings on web speed testing tools; with a lower value, your visitors could see a blank box for a very short time before the actual image is loaded.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>If unsure, don&#8217;t change it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote: It is <strong>not <\/strong>possible to disable entirely ShortPixel AI&#8217;s lazy loading, as it is required by the plugin to work properly. You may, however, exclude certain images from being lazy-loaded. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/help.shortpixel.com\/article\/229-how-to-exclude-images-from-optimization-in-the-shortpixel-adaptive-images-plugin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This option sets how early a lazy-loaded image is loaded before entering the visible area of the page (viewport). For example, the default of 500 px means that an image is loaded when it&#8217;s closer than 500 px to the viewport. A higher value means that an image will be loaded very early, which may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[35],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-841","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-shortpixel-adaptive-images"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":124,"total_views":"744","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"ShortPixel Adaptive Images","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/shortpixel-adaptive-images\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/841\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}