blurhash VS lazysizes

Blogspam, including just taking over the source images.

Original: https://blurha.sh/ and https://blog.wolt.com/hq/2019/07/01/how-we-came-to-create-a-... (2019)

While it's similar to BlurHash, the color performance is much better for the same filesize. Here's a a demonstration of this from the demo page (with ThumbHash in the middle and BlurHash on the right):

Package Link - https://blurha.sh

If you do go this way, you can use https://blurha.sh

No blurhash for images like Next or Gatsby

Use a JavaScript library to implement lazy loading. There are a number of JavaScript libraries available that can help you implement lazy loading, such as Lazysizes and Lozad.

Normally I would write some client-side JS to do this but as this project is solely server-rendered I opted to use a simple tried-and-true library for this: lazysizes.

I recently did some optimizations on my personal website to make the images load “lazily.” In other words it only loads stuff once it hits the viewport. I think that’s what you’re looking for. I tried two techniques:

1. There is an HTML attribute to do just this and it seems to work for iframes too: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Laz...

2. There is a simple library called “lazy sizes” (https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizes)

I tried to avoid the lib and use the native HTML… but for whatever reason the lib worked more reliably/effectively in manual tests as well as in my benchmarking via PageSpeed / Lighthouse. YMMV!

lazysizes is better than loading="lazy"

Since browsers support native lazy-loading, do we need libraries like this https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizes?

Use Lazy loading for below-the-fold images. (You can use different 3rd party libraries like Unveil, lazysizes, etc.)

⚡️ Lazy load images with lazysizes

You can also use this really great library for handling the loading of images in a holistic and well-supported way or you can look at manually implementing the LQIP technique.

And, lazyloading is only for images. If you use e.g. lazysizes you can do anything with it. I'm a digital publisher so I use it for ads and embedded tweets/IGs and so on.