# Fix your website's Largest Contentful Paint by optimizing image loading

DevFeed: [Fix your website's Largest Contentful Paint by optimizing image loading](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/fix-your-website-s-largest-contentful-paint-by-optimizing-image-loading-4050.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/fix-image-lcp/>)

Author: debugbear

Published: 2025-01-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [MDN Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mdn-blog.md>)

Topics: [Core Web Vitals](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/core-web-vitals.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [Image](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/image.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [Performance Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/performance-testing.md>), [real user monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-user-monitoring.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>)

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## AI overview

This tutorial explains how image loading affects Largest Contentful Paint and Core Web Vitals. It covers image discovery through HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, request chains, network waterfalls, browser image-processing stages, and techniques for diagnosing and improving loading performance.

## Source excerpt

Learn techniques to improve the Largest Contentful Paint metric, a part of Core Web Vitals, for your website.