Lazy loading images
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Hello,
Currently we are working on a new website. Within this new website we have the option to lazy load the images. My question regarding this: will this cause any SEO problems? Will google detect / see all images properly? If not, how can we make sure that google does?
Thanks in advance!
Remco
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@AMAGARD, reaf this article: developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/javascript/lazy-loading
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Some websites capture a screenshot of the main page (i.e. siteprice, wot, ...) and use it as an icon to identify your website visually. If the image loading is deferred the "preview" may appear as text only. Therefore, this feature can have a negative UX impact, but not in terms of SEO.
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Hello,
Google will index the images the same way it would if they were visible, since google crawls the source code of the page to retrieve the information. On a visual level what you will do is that the image will take longer to appear but you will gain more loading speed, since this will be done in deferred.
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