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are you guilty of this?: Lazy loading images is great but did ya know it can backfire if not done right?

<img src="bigimage. jpg"data-src="/path/to/lazyload/image"alt="class='lazy'>

>Just lazy load everything, no biggie.
But what about your site's first impression?
First Meaningless Placeholder Load Time: 20s
That's right. Some pages were loading placeholders for seconds before the real images even started to appear. Figma,Lighthouse: Both flagged these as major issues
>Just use default settings, it works fine.
Wrong!
Here's what fixed things:

// JavaScript snippetconst lazyLoader = new LazyLoad({threshold: 150,});lazyLoader. init();

First Load Time Down by Half.
Do you have similar performance hiccups? Share your tips!