Oh, I see. Now that the server has recovered a bit, the image is loaded, too, and it shoves the content even further down. All I can see now is the lower half

Oh, I see. Now that the server has recovered a bit, the image is loaded, too, and it shoves the content even further down. All I can see now is the lower half of the site title and the upper half of the article headline. There is a certain artistic consistency in that, but from a usability standpoint I would call this only a partial improvement over the situation with the missing image.