ralph77

Hi!

Thank you very much for the swift reply. I took a look into the decoding=’async’ tag and found the following information:

Media improvements

WordPress 6.1 will automatically add decoding="async" to image attributes. In simple terms, this function tells your visitor’s browser that it’s okay to load images a bit later in favor of other information and data. This results in the page loading the content much faster and also reduces page render time. This is a huge performance booster for any web page containing a lot of images. It’s also good to know that you can remove this function.

Source: https://yoast.com/performance-improvements-wordpress-6-1/

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So this is a general feature that seems to come with WP itself. Maybe something you might want to consider?

Thanks so this post (https://core.trac.ww.wp.xz.cn/ticket/56969#comment:6) I was able to turn this feature off. Now the img tag is clean, but the strange loading behavior is still there.

I also checked the <img> tag and the loading behavior is set to “eager” for all pictures, so no lazy loading involved. This is the content of a single <img> tag for example:

img alt=”The Great Orion Nebula (M42)” src=”https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/51048890256_2cb793dcdf_s.jpg&#8221; class=’square’ loading=’eager’ width=’75’ height=’75’

The strange thing is, that the behavior itself absolutely looks like lazy loading.

Long story short: turning on/off the “async” feature does not make a difference and the img tag looks clean to me.

Maybe you can take another look?

Thanks and cheers!