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That 4% will not experience any UI/UX consequences or … Re: How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals Programming Web Development by Dani I guess I don't understand why implementing `loading="lazy"` will hurt the CLS if you're only doing it for images below the fold, and always specifying image dimensions (which would ensure to never affect CLS at all)? Re: How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals Programming Web Development by Dani Speed index should also not be affected at all by using it. Speed index measure how long it takes to load the first screen of content of a webpage. That means that if you’re using it only for content below the fold, speed index should never be affected. Re: How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals Programming Web Development by jkon Dani as you wrote "Speed index" is supposed to be about the visible part of a web page - ATF. But because in Lighthouse I kept getting that loading="lazy" method had worse "Speed index" I created two simplified html pages for test. I gave a lot of height of what "Above the fold" is supposed to be , 940px … Re: How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals Programming Web Development by Dani I would like to confirm that the JS version is giving me an LCP of 0.2s and the `loading="lazy"` version is giving me an LCP of 1.1s, so certainly a huge difference there. FCP, total blocking time, CLS (0), and speed index (0.2s) scores are the same for both. I admit that, at first glance, I'm not understanding why the LCP is so long … Re: How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals Programming Web Development by Dani Actually, I take it back. I assume that, using Chrome on a fast Internet connection, and a super high screen resolution, none of the images are actually being lazy loaded. Re: How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals Programming Web Development by Dani Sorry. I’ve just been really exhausted all day. It just clicked that LCP is only for ATF. Soooo, yeah, I don’t know what’s going on there. Re: How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals Programming Web Development by jkon As I wrote in a previous post, I believe that the way loading="lazy" is being implemented in browsers makes it almost unusable. Chromium-based browsers have a really high distance from viewport threshold, loading many images simultaneously upon page entry, while Firefox has a really low threshold, which means the user experience is awful.…