[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #53232: Add async decoding attribute as default to the HTML image tags generated by WordPress

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#53232: Add async decoding attribute as default to the HTML image tags generated by
WordPress
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 Reporter:  isaumya                   |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Media                     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests  |     Focuses:  performance
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Changes (by westonruter):

 * milestone:  5.9 => Future Release


Comment:

 Punting this as we'll need to have more discussion than about this and do
 testing for what the defaults are, namely whether `decoding=async` should
 be on images in the first viewport where we now omit `loading=lazy`. We'll
 need to do more testing to see the impact.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/53232#comment:28>
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