Faster Rendering with the content-visibility CSS Property | DebugBear
March 17, 2025
Have you ever loaded a page with tons of content and noticed how slow it feels? The browser has to process everything at once – even the content you can’t see yet! That’s where the content-visibility property comes in. It’s a CSS feature that tells browsers to skip rendering off-screen content until it’s needed.
Source: Faster Rendering with the content-visibility CSS Property | DebugBear
There are all kinds of CSS and HTML properties that can help improve performance in specific cases that a lot of developers may not be aware of.
content-visibility is one of these.
Michael Hladky had a great talk on this and much more at Hover ’22, which is now available with a free account.