[thethrows]

Why is the image loading so poor on this website?

[yareally]

After inspecting the img tags and skimming what is required just to load them, I'd say they overengineered things just a bit.

[wtbob]

There were images? Must be loaded with some weird JavaScript—all I saw were chunks of white space.

[yareally]

Yeah, it's one of those lazy loading js implementations that tries to be too clever. It's not only lazy loading them, but it's trying to load different sizes based on the client. Not sure if anything they do would be better than just using optimized jpegs and settling on one size.