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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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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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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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How to Show Images on Click

CSS - Tricks

Most images on the web are superfluous. That’s because images don’t often complement the text they’re supposed to support and instead hurt users, taking forever to load and blowing up data caps like some sort of performance tax. We have better image formats like WebP (and soon, perhaps, JPEG XL ). is it fast.

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Optimizing Your Images Didn’t Improve Your Load Time? Here’s Why

MachMetrics

Optimizing your images is often the very first suggestion that any performance writer or consultant will make when it comes to optimizing a website. However, what do you do when you optimize your images and still don’t see a noticeable improvement in the performance of your site? Images are being lazy-loaded above the fold.

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