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: For the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) image—usually the main hero image—using decoding="async" can actually delay its appearance, potentially hurting your Core Web Vitals scores.

: Because the browser might paint the rest of the page before the image is ready, the image may "pop in" suddenly after the surrounding text is already visible. <img decoding="async" class="alignleft" src="ht...

The attribute decoding="async" in an tag is a performance-focused hint that tells the browser to decode image data off the main thread. This prevents the CPU-intensive process of converting a compressed file (like a JPEG) into raw pixels from blocking the rendering of other critical content, such as text or interactive elements. Why decoding="async" Matters : For the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) image—usually