Images

Abstract

I suppose that it goes without saying that one of the more annoying, yet necessary, aspects of browsing a web site using a slow Internet connection is waiting for images to load. While text-based web sites can display instantaneously (or seemingly so) on any Internet connection, images must be downloaded in order to be viewable. With the advent of high-speed Internet, this issue has become less of a problem, but images still require time to display. Nonetheless, images are indispensable to the user experience, and therefore, as web developers, we’re tasked with minimizing the negative aspects of image loading.