🎨 Palette: Lazy load heavy GIFs to improve page performance#49
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💡 What: Added the `loading="lazy"` HTML attribute to three large animated GIFs in the `outdoorplus` documentation using MkDocs' `attr_list` extension. 🎯 Why: These GIFs total over 8MB in size. Loading them simultaneously upon page navigation causes network congestion and UI jank, negatively impacting the reading experience. Deferring their load until they approach the viewport improves initial page rendering performance. ♿ Accessibility: Improves perceived performance and reduces unnecessary bandwidth consumption for users. Co-authored-by: kastnerp <1919773+kastnerp@users.noreply.github.com>
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Added lazy loading attributes to large GIF media in the Outdoor+ documentation.
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docs/outdoorplus/index.mdfile contained three animated GIFs totaling ~8MB (umcf.gif,image38.gif,image39.gif). When rendered, they caused a significant performance hit on initial page load.Leveraging the existing MkDocs
attr_listplugin,{ loading=lazy }was appended to the Markdown image tags. This simple UX enhancement defers loading the images until they are near the viewport, greatly improving the perceived load time and reducing page jank without any complex configuration changes.PR created automatically by Jules for task 10057481727886109039 started by @kastnerp