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Overzealous Lazy Loading Wrecked Core Web Vitals — Here's the Fix
A developer's blanket lazy loading strategy caused LCP to spike from 2.2s to 3.5s on mobile, dropping good LCP share from 85% to 58%. The culprit was lazy loading above-the-fold images, including hero images. Removing lazy from critical images restored LCP to 2.3s and good LCP share to 86%.
Meridian48 take
A cautionary tale that lazy loading isn't a universal performance cure — it can backfire badly when applied to above-the-fold content.
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