>The point of lazy loading images is generally to spare the browser from making a bunch of upfront requests to below the fold content, thereby making it so the

>The point of lazy loading images is generally to spare the browser from making a bunch of upfront requests to below the fold content, thereby making it so the page and content in the viewport is ready faster. In practice, it has the opposite effect when the browser needs to figure out where on the page the image will end up at before attempting to load it.