@jimniels very interesting last post on preloading images. Did you happen to see any comparisons to fetchpriority="high"? That's the direction #WordPress is probably going for similar reasons: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/05/02/proposal-for-enhancing-lcp-image-performance-with-fetchpriority/
@mrwweb I did not see any comparisons, but given my (limited) experience, this excerpt from that article seems spot on:
> While those two approaches in principle allow the browser to know about loading the image even earlier, in practice there isn’t a notable difference, especially when using the tag, as at that point the entire HTML will already be loaded.
I went with <link> because *in theory* it's even faster, but in practice idk if it's that much faster given they both get high priority.
@mrwweb Given my SSG setup, it was easy to implement the <link>. But i can see how a tool like wordpress would just be like "stick fetchpriority directly on the img" cause then you don't have to know about other pieces of the document and how to insert information there.
@jimniels good point about expediency in both cases. Hadn't thought of that.