Largest Contentul Paint change in Chrome 112 to ignore low-entropy images

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This may result in LCP times increasing, if a low-content background was being painted very early, or if a low-content placeholder was being used to reserve space for a more contenful image which loaded later.

Death letter to LQIP? 🙏


  1. Do you know good tutorials and/or examples about dealing with responsive images that are fluid horizontaly, but with a fixed height?

    Using object-fit: cover; in the CSS is easy, but how can we prevent loading many pixels that will be hidden, without using too many <source> in a <picture>?