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As of Chrome 76, native lazy loading has come to the web!
Setting images in blog posts to loading="lazy" (or user-configurable) could provide massive performance benefits, especially on blog posts with lots of images. The engineering team over at the BBC did a write-up about this and showed page load times reduced by 50%.
This is a completely non-destructive and backwards-compatible change, so implementing it now will only mean further benefits in the future as other browser vendors implement the spec.
As of Chrome 76, native lazy loading has come to the web!
Setting images in blog posts to
loading="lazy"
(or user-configurable) could provide massive performance benefits, especially on blog posts with lots of images. The engineering team over at the BBC did a write-up about this and showed page load times reduced by 50%.https://web.dev/native-lazy-loading
Wordpress is also looking to do this by default very soon as per https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/44427.
Whilst this is only currently supported in Chrome, Safari has expressed interest, and Chrome does account for over 50% of the web.
This is a completely non-destructive and backwards-compatible change, so implementing it now will only mean further benefits in the future as other browser vendors implement the spec.
PS. I know that feature requests generally aren't tracked here, but I was advised to create this issue as per https://forum.ghost.org/t/add-native-image-lazy-loading-support/8799/2
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