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Preload Featured Images

Preload Featured Images automatically in posts to increase the PageSpeed Score.

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Open evidence

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50 / 83 rows with source links

60.2% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

33 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
728 844 -13.7% 2.3K

Related Opportunities

4 markets
Commercial opportunity Performance: Performance monitoring and client reporting performance monitoring and client reporting · final 83.5 · proof validated Commercial opportunity Pagespeed: Performance monitoring and client reporting performance monitoring and client reporting · final 78.7 · proof validated Needs sharper proof Preload: Performance monitoring and client reporting performance monitoring and client reporting · final 68.5 · proof not collected Needs sharper proof Featured Images: Content publishing operations content publishing operations · final 68.3 · proof not collected

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.93
LCP is not decreasing

LCP is not decreasing: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
LCP is not decreasing Hello friends, I’m probably making a mistake somewhere when setting up the plugin Preload Featured Images.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Banner Image on Home (& all Other) Pages

Banner Image on Home (& all Other) Pages: users show compatibility, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Banner Image on Home (& all Other) Pages From reading the plugin description I’m not sure if it will help with this website or not.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85
Plugin increased LCP for desktop but no change for mobile

Plugin increased LCP for desktop but no change for mobile: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
I use hestia theme and I selected ‘Hestia blog’ as the image size.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Why can’t we preload mobile size for mobile, and larger size for desktop?

Why can’t we preload mobile size for mobile, and larger size for desktop?: users show performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Hello, this plugin has been simple and useful.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
[NSFW] amp version

[NSFW] amp version: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] do you have amp ( mobile version ) amp version whit this plugins Thanks !
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Just a Suggestion

Just a Suggestion: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Just a Suggestion In a future update, and to make the plugin usable for my installation: Need to be able to select featured image to preload by Classname.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Plugin Issues

Plugin Issues: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Plugin Issues Hello.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Not working for custom post type

Not working for custom post type: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Not working for custom post type It works for post type but doesn’t work for custom post type featured images.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Use fetchpriority=high to load your LCP hero image sooner

Use fetchpriority=high to load your LCP hero image sooner: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
fetchpriority is supported by chrome and it is really helpfull https://addyosmani.com/blog/fetch-priority/ Thanks This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by سلمان محمدی .
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Kadence theme and Ewww

Kadence theme and Ewww: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
Proof Blocked card complete performance monitoring and client reporting Evidence linked to opportunity
Kadence theme and Ewww has anyone tried using this with Kadence and Ewww’s EasyIO?

Competitor Context

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Display Featured Image for Genesis praise owner · intel 75.1 · weakness 65.8
praise owner
stale update history 12 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, publishers, and ecommerce operators · Wedge: audit banner display rules, lead capture, trust signals, and campaign attribution
source 1 source 2
Auto Featured Image from Title praise owner · intel 74.1 · weakness 64.9
praise owner
stale update history 13 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Set All First Images As Featured praise owner · intel 72.6 · weakness 63.4
praise owner
stale update history 9 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured images publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Hide featured image on all single page/post praise owner · intel 71.8 · weakness 61.1
praise owner
stale update history 7 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured images publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
WP Autoset Featured Image Plus praise owner · intel 70.2 · weakness 59.6
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
RSS with Images praise owner · intel 65.7 · weakness 52.9
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check featured image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Quick Featured Images praise owner · intel 57.6 · weakness 34.9
praise owner
3 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check media library publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Easy Featured Images praise owner · intel 56.9 · weakness 41.3
praise owner
stale update history 2 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check media publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2

Repeated Themes

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

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complaint Banner Image on Home (& all Other) Pages support · 2025-06-26T21:13:19+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Banner Image on Home (& all Other) Pages: users show compatibility, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Banner Image on Home (& all Other) Pages From reading the plugin description I’m not sure if it will help with this website or not.
compatibility performance missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
complaint Kadence theme and Ewww support · 2024-02-13T16:22:33+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Kadence theme and Ewww: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Kadence theme and Ewww has anyone tried using this with Kadence and Ewww’s EasyIO?
compatibility easy content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
complaint Use fetchpriority=high to load your LCP hero image sooner support · 2023-12-20T09:35:43+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Use fetchpriority=high to load your LCP hero image sooner: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: fetchpriority is supported by chrome and it is really helpfull https://addyosmani.com/blog/fetch-priority/ Thanks This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by سلمان محمدی .
support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
praise Preloading on pages support · 2023-12-05T02:36:34+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Preloading on pages: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Preloading on pages The plugin only works on posts, will it also work on pages or any other kind of content?
reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
complaint LCP is not decreasing support · 2023-10-24T14:41:39+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

LCP is not decreasing: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: LCP is not decreasing Hello friends, I’m probably making a mistake somewhere when setting up the plugin Preload Featured Images.
bugs compatibility performance missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
complaint [NSFW] amp version support · 2023-08-26T04:49:34+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

[NSFW] amp version: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] do you have amp ( mobile version ) amp version whit this plugins Thanks !
missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
complaint Not working for custom post type support · 2022-11-09T07:57:31+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Not working for custom post type: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Not working for custom post type It works for post type but doesn’t work for custom post type featured images.
missing feature support reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
praise works perfectly on post blog (5 stars) review · 2022-04-05T07:05:09+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

works perfectly on post blog: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: works perfectly on post blog works with no problem on post blog.
reliable quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
complaint Plugin Issues support · 2022-02-22T20:24:53+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Plugin Issues: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin Issues Hello.
bugs missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
praise Great, wish it worked for pages too (5 stars) review · 2022-01-14T06:24:54+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Great, wish it worked for pages too: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great, wish it worked for pages too This is fantastic and works perfectly!
missing feature reliable quality content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
complaint Why can’t we preload mobile size for mobile, and larger size for desktop? support · 2022-01-14T01:15:22+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Why can’t we preload mobile size for mobile, and larger size for desktop?: users show performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hello, this plugin has been simple and useful.
performance missing feature easy reliable content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
mixed How to check it’s working? support · 2021-11-30T13:24:47+00:00 · low severity · featured images

How to check it’s working?: users show compatibility, performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Using Astra theme and didn’t do any configuration after activating the Preload Featured Images since you mentioned it doesn’t require.
compatibility performance missing feature support content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
complaint Just a Suggestion support · 2021-11-20T20:16:54+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Just a Suggestion: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Just a Suggestion In a future update, and to make the plugin usable for my installation: Need to be able to select featured image to preload by Classname.
missing feature setup content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
praise Hidden Gem! (5 stars) review · 2021-10-25T18:28:22+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Hidden Gem!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Hidden Gem! Thanks for making this one! Thanks for making this one! You’re welcome! Thanks for your review! You’re welcome! Thanks for your review!
content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin
mixed Plugin increased LCP for desktop but no change for mobile support · 2021-07-24T15:18:13+00:00 · medium severity · featured images

Plugin increased LCP for desktop but no change for mobile: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I use hestia theme and I selected ‘Hestia blog’ as the image size.
bugs compatibility performance missing feature content publishing operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: detect performance slowdowns, cache conflicts, asset regressions, and client-report impact
source plugin