↳ In-reply-to » I complain about this a lot:

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I noticed that loading="lazy" might not be so great after all.

This is without lazy loading:

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The total page load time is around 400-500 ms. Okay.

Now this is with lazy loading:

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It finished much quicker, after about 250 ms. Sounds good.

But notice this gap right here?

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This wasn’t there before. With lazy loading, it now takes something like 80-100 ms until the browser even starts loading images. This is Chromium, but Firefox shows a similar gap.

The net result is that there is a very noticeable delay/flicker when you open a page, because it takes so long until the images have loaded. Yes, the layout doesn’t shift around, but that has nothing to do with lazy loading.

How odd. 🤔