Picture perfect images with the modern element – Stack Overflow
August 2, 2024
Images are one of the most pervasive parts of the web. This isn’t a huge surprise as we humans are quite visual and the tag has been around for almost 30 years. Images are so prominent that they are part of the most important content in over ~70% of pages on both mobile and desktop according to the largest contentful paint metric. We like images over on the Stack Overflow blog too.
The humble element has gained some superpowers since it was created. Given how central it is to image optimization on the web, let’s catch up on what it can do and how it can help improve user-experience and the Core Web Vitals.
Source: Picture perfect images with the modern element – Stack Overflow
The foundations of developing for the Web, like images, can tend to be overlooked, but we do so to our detriment.
This article will get you up to speed with image features and practices to help up your sites performance.
