Lazy loading images effect image seo?

[Gordian]

Im using a wordpress plugin to lazy load images so that the site speed is a lot faster. Will this mess up image seo? The code for the image looks like this (with the site taken out)

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<noscript></p> <p> </p> <p>I see it has the 1x1.gif it loads to speed up page speed but does the fact the link is to the correct place make it ok?</p> <p>Thanks for letting me know</p></noscript>](http://.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IMG_9477.jpg)

[AlanMosley]

Don't sound good, images may take a time to load, but your html loads first, so-just let them load.

Or use a cdn, i use Microsoft Azure Cloud for cdn, cost me about $2 a month

[BeytzNet]

Dear Alan,

I have an eCommerce website with pages that are filled with images -
on some 100-200 small images (6-10KB)

I have used similar lazy load solution using scripts in order to provide better experience and faster load speed but the downside of problematic src attribute (meaningless) is obvious.

As far as I understand (and please correct me), with CDN, some of the material (like images) is saved in servers all through the globe and therefore get to the client faster.

Does it mean that I need to change my hosting or is it some sort of addon?
Does it have any sort of negative effect on SEO?

Thanks

[AlanMosley]

When I wrote the post above I hosted my sites on premises and used cdn for images. But cloud hosting has got so cheap I just host the lot on the cloud. With band width these days I really don't worry about images any more, I optimize them, and host them in the cloud, plus the fact that most people have a good download speed these days, I don't see it as a problem.

Also as a user experience it is more important that the page starts loading soon, when it completes is less important.

I would look into Microsoft Azure they host all sorts of sites, windows and Linux and are cheap.

[BeytzNet]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

My images are already optimized but 200 7kb images take longer to load than 1 1.5mb image. The fact that it loads the same gray pixel gif for 190 images saves lots of time.

I played with the JQuery lazy load and got the page speed up from 50 mobile & 64 desktop to first load (there is also caching) all the way up to 69 mobile and 84 desktop (google speed test).

Even with the caching there is about 10 points difference. (approx 75 and 90).

There is also a difference in the user experience even though it is mostly felt in first time mobile users...