延迟加载(懒加载) 是一种将资源标识为非阻塞（非关键）资源并仅在需要时加载它们的策略。 这是一种缩短关键渲染路径长度的方法，可以缩短页面加载时间。
延迟加载可以在应用程序的不同时刻发生，但通常会在某些用户交互（例如滚动和导航）上发生。
随着网络的发展，我们已经看到发送给用户的资产数量和规模都在急剧增加。从2011年到2019年，台式机的资源中位数从 ~100KB 增至 ~400KB，移动版的资源中位数从 ~50KB 增至~350KB。图像大小已从台式机上的~250KB 增至 ~900KB，而移动设备上的 ~100KB增至~850KB。
One of the methods we can use to tackle this problem is to shorten the Critical Rendering Path length by lazy loading resources that are not critical for the first render to happen.
A practical example would be when, you land on the home page of an e-commerce site which has a link to a cart page/section and all its resources (JS, CSS, images...) are downloaded only when the user navigates to that cart page.
延迟加载可以通过多种策略应用于多个资源。
代码拆分
JavaScript, CSS and HTML can be split into smaller chunks. This enables sending the minimal code required to provide value upfront, improving page-load times. The rest can be loaded on demand.
脚本类型模块
任何类型为 type="module" 的脚本标签都被视为一个 JavaScript 模块，并且默认情况下会被延迟。
默认情况下，CSS被视为渲染阻塞资源，因此，在 CSSOM 被构造完成之前，浏览器不会渲染任何已处理的内容。CSS 必须很薄，才能尽快交付，建议使用媒体类型和查询实现非阻塞渲染。
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all"> <link href="portrait.css" rel="stylesheet" media="orientation:portrait"> <link href="print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print">
可以执行一些 CSS 优化来实现这一目标。
默认情况下，字体请求会延迟到构造渲染树之前，这可能会导致文本渲染延迟。
It is possible to override the default behaviour and preload web font resources using <link rel="preload">, the CSS font-display property, and the Font Loading API.
See also: Element Link
Very often, webpages contain many images that contribute to data-usage and how fast a page can load. Most of those images are off-screen (non-critical), requiring user interaction (an example being scroll) in order to view them.
Loading 属性
The {{htmlattrxref("loading", "img")}} attribute on an {{HTMLElement("img")}} element (or the {{htmlattrxref("loading", "iframe")}} attribute on an {{HTMLElement("iframe")}}) can be used to instruct the browser to defer loading of images/iframes that are off-screen until the user scrolls near them.
<img src="image.jpg" alt="..." loading="lazy"> <iframe src="video-player.html" title="..." loading="lazy"></iframe>
The load event fires when the eagerly-loaded content has all been loaded; at that time, it's entirely possible (or even likely) that there may be lazily-loaded images that are within the {{Glossary("visual viewport")}} that haven't yet loaded.
You can determine if a given image has finished loading by examining the value of its Boolean {{domxref("HTMLImageElement.complete", "complete")}} property.
Polyfill
Include this polyfill to provide support for older and currently incompatible browsers:
loading-attribute-polyfill
交叉观察者 API
Intersection Observers allow the user to know when an observed element enters or exits the browser’s viewport.
事件处理程序
当浏览器的兼容性至关重要时，有以下几种选择：
| Specification | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| {{SpecName('HTML WHATWG', "#lazy-loading-attributes")}} | {{Spec2('HTML WHATWG')}} |