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If You’re Not Lazy Loading Your Images, You’re Being Wasteful

MachMetrics

So then why are you serving an entire page of images to your website visitors when they’re only looking above the fold? I had previously written about lazy-loading your images – but at the time the implementations were still new and cumbersome. How I Implemented Lazy Loading in 60 seconds.

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Lazy loading images using Intersection Observer

Dean Hume

As he was demoing his code, I noticed that he created an awesome little helper library to lazy load images. What’s the big deal with lazy loading? The idea behind lazy loading images is that you wait until a user scrolls further down the page and the image comes into view before making the network request for it.

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A Deep Dive into Native Lazy-Loading for Images and Frames

CSS - Tricks

Today's websites are packed with heavy media assets like images and videos. Images make up around 50% of an average website's traffic. What’s this thing about images being lazy, you ask? A smaller initial page that loads faster and saves network requests for items that may not be needed if the user never gets there.

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Lazy loading images using Intersection Observer

Dean Hume

As he was demoing his code, I noticed that he created an awesome little helper library to lazy load images. What’s the big deal with lazy loading? The idea behind lazy loading images is that you wait until a user scrolls further down the page and the image comes into view before making the network request for it.

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Lazy loading images using Intersection Observer

Dean Hume

As he was demoing his code, I noticed that he created an awesome little helper library to lazy load images. What’s the big deal with lazy loading? The idea behind lazy loading images is that you wait until a user scrolls further down the page and the image comes into view before making the network request for it.

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The Humble ` ` Element And Core Web Vitals

Smashing Magazine

Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can help improve user experience and the Core Web Vitals. I’ll be covering image optimization in more depth in Smashing Magazine’s new book on Image Optimization. Use srcset + efficient modern image formats.

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Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021

CSS - Tricks

Malte Ubl’s list for: 8 image loading optimization techniques to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the CPU usage for image display. Fluid width images in CSS, not forgetting the height and width attributes in HTML so you get proper aspect-ratio on first render.

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