Articles Tagged image strategies

Gatsby does a great job processing and handling images. For example, it helps you save time with image optimization because you don’t have to manually optimize each image on your own.

With plugins and some configuration, you can even setup image preloading and a technique called blur-up for your images using Gatsby. This helps with a smoother user experience that is faster and more appealing.… Read article “Ways to Organize and Prepare Images for a Blur-Up Effect Using Gatsby”

You may have heard (or even issued the call) that “we can just use lazy loading!” when looking for a way to slim down a particularly heavy web page.

Lazy loading is a popular technique for gradually requesting images as they come into view, rather than all at once after the HTML of the page has been parsed. It can reduce the initial page weight, and help us hit our performance budgets by requesting images when they’re needed.

It can … Read article “Tips for rolling your own lazy loading”