How To Add JQuery Lazy Load Plugin to Blogger

This post will explain to you how to add JQuery Lazy Load Plugin to your blogger blog or any other website easily.If you have a blog or website containing many images, this tricks will be very helpful to you.It can reduce the page loading time of your site.You can see more details about this JQuery Lazy Load Plugin from here:http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload.Look at the DEMO pageto see the result.

Lazy loader is a jQuery plugin written in JavaScript. It delays loading of images in (long) web pages. Images outside of viewport (visible part of web page) wont be loaded before user scrolls to them. Using lazy load on long web pages containing many large images makes the page load faster. Browser will be in ready state after loading visible images. In some cases it can also help to reduce server load.

To add JQuery Lazy Load Plugin to your blogger blog or any other website follow the steps given below:

1.Login to your blogger dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML

2.Scroll down to where you see </head> tag .

3.Copy below code and paste it just before the </head> tag .

<script charset='utf-8' src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[

/*
 * Lazy Load - jQuery plugin for lazy loading images
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Mika Tuupola
 *
 * Licensed under the MIT license:
 *   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 *
 * Project home:
 *   http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload
 *
 * Version:  1.5.0
 *
 */
(function($) {

    $.fn.lazyload = function(options) {
        var settings = {
            threshold    : 0,
            failurelimit : 0,
            event        : "scroll",
            effect       : "show",
            container    : window
        };
                
        if(options) {
            $.extend(settings, options);
        }

        /* Fire one scroll event per scroll. Not one scroll event per image. */
        var elements = this;
        if ("scroll" == settings.event) {
            $(settings.container).bind("scroll", function(event) {
                
                var counter = 0;
                elements.each(function() {
                    if ($.abovethetop(this, settings) ||
                        $.leftofbegin(this, settings)) {
                            /* Nothing. */
                    } else if (!$.belowthefold(this, settings) &&
                        !$.rightoffold(this, settings)) {
                            $(this).trigger("appear");
                    } else {
                        if (counter++ > settings.failurelimit) {
                            return false;
                        }
                    }
                });
                /* Remove image from array so it is not looped next time. */
                var temp = $.grep(elements, function(element) {
                    return !element.loaded;
                });
                elements = $(temp);
            });
        }
        
        this.each(function() {
            var self = this;
            
            /* Save original only if it is not defined in HTML. */
            if (undefined == $(self).attr("original")) {
                $(self).attr("original", $(self).attr("src"));     
            }

            if ("scroll" != settings.event || 
                    undefined == $(self).attr("src") || 
                    settings.placeholder == $(self).attr("src") || 
                    ($.abovethetop(self, settings) ||
                     $.leftofbegin(self, settings) || 
                     $.belowthefold(self, settings) || 
                     $.rightoffold(self, settings) )) {
                        
                if (settings.placeholder) {
                    $(self).attr("src", settings.placeholder);      
                } else {
                    $(self).removeAttr("src");
                }
                self.loaded = false;
            } else {
                self.loaded = true;
            }
            
            /* When appear is triggered load original image. */
            $(self).one("appear", function() {
                if (!this.loaded) {
                    $("<img />")
                        .bind("load", function() {
                            $(self)
                                .hide()
                                .attr("src", $(self).attr("original"))
                                [settings.effect](settings.effectspeed);
                            self.loaded = true;
                        })
                        .attr("src", $(self).attr("original"));
                };
            });

            /* When wanted event is triggered load original image */
            /* by triggering appear.                              */
            if ("scroll" != settings.event) {
                $(self).bind(settings.event, function(event) {
                    if (!self.loaded) {
                        $(self).trigger("appear");
                    }
                });
            }
        });
        
        /* Force initial check if images should appear. */
        $(settings.container).trigger(settings.event);
        
        return this;

    };

    /* Convenience methods in jQuery namespace.           */
    /* Use as  $.belowthefold(element, {threshold : 100, container : window}) */

    $.belowthefold = function(element, settings) {
        if (settings.container === undefined || settings.container === window) {
            var fold = $(window).height() + $(window).scrollTop();
        } else {
            var fold = $(settings.container).offset().top + $(settings.container).height();
        }
        return fold <= $(element).offset().top - settings.threshold;
    };
    
    $.rightoffold = function(element, settings) {
        if (settings.container === undefined || settings.container === window) {
            var fold = $(window).width() + $(window).scrollLeft();
        } else {
            var fold = $(settings.container).offset().left + $(settings.container).width();
        }
        return fold <= $(element).offset().left - settings.threshold;
    };
        
    $.abovethetop = function(element, settings) {
        if (settings.container === undefined || settings.container === window) {
            var fold = $(window).scrollTop();
        } else {
            var fold = $(settings.container).offset().top;
        }
        return fold >= $(element).offset().top + settings.threshold  + $(element).height();
    };
    
    $.leftofbegin = function(element, settings) {
        if (settings.container === undefined || settings.container === window) {
            var fold = $(window).scrollLeft();
        } else {
            var fold = $(settings.container).offset().left;
        }
        return fold >= $(element).offset().left + settings.threshold + $(element).width();
    };
    /* Custom selectors for your convenience.   */
    /* Use as $("img:below-the-fold").something() */

    $.extend($.expr[':'], {
        "below-the-fold" : "$.belowthefold(a, {threshold : 0, container: window})",
        "above-the-fold" : "!$.belowthefold(a, {threshold : 0, container: window})",
        "right-of-fold"  : "$.rightoffold(a, {threshold : 0, container: window})",
        "left-of-fold"   : "!$.rightoffold(a, {threshold : 0, container: window})"
    });
    
})(jQuery);

//]]>
</script>

<script charset='utf-8' type='text/javascript'>

$(function() {

   $(&quot;img&quot;).lazyload({placeholder : &quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSSt1vG5Hv2HhYhKvnT-xLh-vNtTccQMUbxpxEDTKK-SNEdUTIGGGbqz0zdJVuzQX-VERZoo9wcu3W-fPaYNkwZMu28t_kaxvNuq1keb967srCmh41vXgEQlTLaeNkO09n6gAO_XLKgDk/s1600/grey.gif&quot;,threshold : 200});

});

</script>

Note : You can download javascript files from here if you want to host above files yourself.

4.Now save your template and you are done.Refresh your site to see the result.