Check library · Speed and Core Web Vitals
Below-the-fold images load eagerly
Why it matters
Every eager image competes with the hero for bandwidth on first paint.
What to do about it
Add loading=lazy to images below the fold, and never to the hero.
The engine generates this fix itself using the set_image_loading strategy. It arrives in your queue as a complete artefact, because an incomplete fix never reaches the queue, and once you approve it the change is pushed and the page re-fetched to confirm it is live.
How it is weighted
These are the values the scoring actually uses, not a description of them. Priority is derived from all three rather than chosen, which is why a high-impact, low-effort finding surfaces above a severe one that would take a quarter to fix.
- Severity
- low
- Impact
- 20% of the weight this category can carry
- Effort
- 10%, where 100% is a project rather than a change
- Confidence
- 80% that a hit is a real problem rather than a pattern we misread
- Area
- Speed and Core Web Vitals
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