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: For the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) image—usually the main hero image—using decoding="async" can actually delay its appearance, potentially hurting your Core Web Vitals scores.

: Moving the decoding process to a background thread keeps the main thread free, ensuring a smoother user experience and reducing "jank" while scrolling. <img decoding="async" class="alignleft" src="ht...

When a browser downloads an image, it must decode it before it can be displayed. By default, many browsers perform this synchronously, meaning they wait for the image to decode before showing the rest of the page content. : For the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) image—usually