Wouldn't the standard solution of lazy loading images (and prioritizing critical css) help. Since they are now trying to load everything on a big page, they should only be trying to load everything above the fold.
Yes, the basic approach is the same. There's limited bandwidth and they have too many image assets going through the pipe at the same time. They can easily control this by just loading a few at a time, whether that's the first page or row or whatever (probably based on testing to see what "feels" the fastest).
It's a tried and tested approach and much better than just sending everything in the HTML in a single blast. There are hundreds of image-based sites out there, they all do this as an optimization.
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Wouldn't the standard solution of lazy loading images (and prioritizing critical css) help. Since they are now trying to load everything on a big page, they should only be trying to load everything above the fold.
Yes, the basic approach is the same. There's limited bandwidth and they have too many image assets going through the pipe at the same time. They can easily control this by just loading a few at a time, whether that's the first page or row or whatever (probably based on testing to see what "feels" the fastest).
It's a tried and tested approach and much better than just sending everything in the HTML in a single blast. There are hundreds of image-based sites out there, they all do this as an optimization.