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I've got to agree. Lazy loading is obnoxious and unnecessary. Browsers already load images from top to bottom, so unless your site is already extremely slow, yo
by thesuitonym 6y ago
I've got to agree. Lazy loading is obnoxious and unnecessary. Browsers already load images from top to bottom, so unless your site is already extremely slow, you gain nothing from it. It also makes sites feel slower, since instead of reading a paragraph, and scrolling down to see an image, you read a paragraph, scroll down, and find an image loading.
- untog 6y ago> Browsers already load images from top to bottom Is that true? I believe that they kick off the requests to load images from top to bottom, but I don't think they prioritise bandwidth in such a way that downloading image #3 will never make downloading image #1 slower.
- hagy 6y agoThat is my understanding as well and I checked mozilla documentation to confirm. [0] That link also covers loading="lazy" attribute for <img> tags, which I've commonly used to defer loading. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/img#attr-loading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...