Google has brought in a new feature in its Chrome browser that allows users to speed up web page loading without fail. In this guide, you’ll learn how to enable a new Lazy loading feature.
Chrome is infamous for eating up inordinate amount of RAM on a device. This together with increased bandwidth usage on mobile devices can cause certain web pages or websites to load slowly. This is where the lazy loading comes into play in Chrome to speed up web pages load times while reducing the bandwidth usage. As of now, the browser downloads all the text, images, code to render a web page to the end user, but using lazy loading, Chrome will only request and process elements such as images and iframes visible on the screen, and everything else will load when needed.
Lazy loading isn’t an entirely new concept. Millions of websites already include a lazy load mechanism to load pages on various devices. But by bringing the feature to the web browser should help the speed up pages that offer such feature.
In the guide below, see the steps to use Chrome’s lazy loading on Windows 10, macOS or Linux.
Enable Lazy Load in Chrome
To speed up web page loading times in Chrome with lazy load feature, use these steps.
1 – Launch Chrome on your device.
Note: You must be running Google Chrome version 70 or later to enable the feature. To check the current version, head over to main menu > Help > About Google Chrome. If you’re not using the required version, you will need to install Chrome Canary for Windows 10.
2 – Now type the following path in the address bar of Chrome and hit enter key:
chrome://flags/#enable-lazy-image-loading
3 – Click the drop-down menu on the right and select Enabled (or Disabled to turn the feature off).
4 – Now click the Relaunch Now button to restart your Chrome browser for the changes to take effect.
That’s all. After completing the above steps, Chrome will load images and iframe elements when needed to be displayed on the screen, and in effect speed up web page load time.
