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Christoph Erdmann has been a web developer since 2001 and has specialized in the frontend since 2019. He has implemented numerous projects for numerous national and international brands and groups such as Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Beiersdorf, Campari, XING, Nikon, etc. In 2015, he was able to deepen his love for data compression in a project sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, which resulted in the image compression platform Compress-Or-Die which he has been passionately supporting in his spare time ever since.

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Faster Image Loading With Embedded Image Previews

The Embedded Image Preview (EIP) technique introduced in this article allows us to load preview images during lazy loading using progressive JPEGs, Ajax and HTTP range requests without having to transfer additional data. JPEG files, for which lazy loading is mostly used, have the possibility, according to the specification, to store the data contained in them in such a way that first the coarse and then the detailed image contents are displayed. Instead of having the image built up from top to bottom during loading, a blurred image can be displayed very quickly, which gradually becomes sharper and sharper. Read more…