Chrome becomes lighter with the lazy loading of web pages
The lazy loading of web pages will allow you to reach a higher rendering speed on paper than today. That’s how.
Google constantly updates its browser Chrome, the most used of the web: among the latest news in the Canary builds (the most modern, but also the most unstable) we received a completely new user interface, and rarely come new features and various improvements to keep the software at the forefront. There are four channels of release: Canary, Dev, Beta and Stable, in increasing order of stability, and by participating in one of them, users can try more or less in advance the news provided on the web browser. And among the most recent, there is the ” lazy loading. ”
Contrary to the chosen name, the ” lazy loading ” of the pages should deliver a greater opening speed of the same. According to Bleeping Computer the novelty is present from v70.0.3521.0, so for a few days, and can be activated in the usual way: from the page chrome:// flags (to be inserted in the address bar, as if it were a website) you must activate the entries #enable-lazy-image-loading and #enable-lazy-frame-loading. In this way, the website will load only the elements visible to the user with advantages in loading times.
Invisible IFrame and ” below the fold ” elements will not be loaded, so those not in sight that can only be reached by scrolling down the screen. The browser initially loaded only the elements that are needed, postponing the loading of the others to give a sense of greater reactivity to the user. The native lazy-loading function was announced last January, mainly for Android, with the promise of its arrival on the desktop only if the tests on the mobile platform had brought positive results.
Google had to face several problems in the implementation of the functionality: for example – the compatibility with the printing and saving functions of the page, which obviously require the complete rendering of the page; and situations where the Internet connection is not the fastest (the user would not view IFrame and images that have not been uploaded). Web developers will also have the possibility to inhibit the function when it will be available publicly, even if to date we have no news on a hypothetical roll-out.
Google is still working with the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) for the introduction of an HTML tag that will allow developers to lazy loading only some elements of the page.
