What are deferred images? A deferred image is downloaded after the initial page load Images not initially visible on a page (below the fold) can be deferred allowing what is visible to load faster Deferring images for faster pages This article will describe a simple way to defer images without jQuery or lazy loading. One of the main reasons a page loads slowly is images. There is not an internet user anywhere that has not seen an image, slowly loading from top to bottom. Even as a user watches that image slowly loading, there are often multiple images further down the page that are not visible to that user yet, and they are all loading too. All these images are competing for the same bandwidth as your page resources such as css and javascript. This means images are getting in the way of providing the initially visible part of your webpage to users as quickly as possible.
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