712: Lazy Loading the Web with Scott Jehl

ShopTalk

Technology

4.9 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Show DescriptionChris Coyier and Scott Jehl discuss the recent advancements in lazy loading on the web, the process of standardization, browser support, and the future of web performance optimization. Listen on WebsiteGuestsScott JehlGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialTech lead of the Performance & Accessibility Team at Squarespace. Links Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer YouTube Embeds are Bananas Heavy and it's Fixable – Frontend Masters Blog How To Use Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-Loading on the Web Today — Squarespace Engineering Blog Squarespace & Web Standards: How We Helped Bring HTML Video & Audio Lazy Loading to Today's Browsers — Squarespace Engineering Blog web-platform-tests documentation — web-platform-tests documentation SponsorsSanityThe back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale. Start building with an extended 60-day trial.

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0:00.0	Hey, Shopping Maniac!
0:17.4	Good.
0:18.0	Good!
0:19.2	Hey, everybody. Shop Talk Show, I hit the butt. You got a little Red Sox!
0:22.9	Hey, everybody.
0:28.4	Shop talk show, I hit the button and I realize that I don't even remember how Dave starts the show.
0:30.7	I think he says, hey, shop a maniac.
0:35.7	But I feel he's probably got a little script that is now just vacant from my mind because Dave hardly ever misses a show, but is taking a week off because we're adults and we can just freaking do that and it's fine.
0:43.4	So just me today.
0:45.1	Oh, but not just just me.
0:47.9	Me and Scott Jill, old buddy of the show.
0:50.0	How you doing, Scott?
0:51.2	Hey, I'm doing well, Chris.
0:52.3	Thanks for having me on.
0:53.3	Yeah, yeah, good. I'm great.
0:55.5	You're at Squarespace now. We'll just say that. I don't know. Yeah, and they're coming up on a
1:00.8	website for building websites. Change the world, I'd say. I'll let you speak for that. Yeah,
1:07.9	I think, yeah, they're great. I like that too. I think that certain
1:12.8	things should be easier. And building a website for your barber is one of them. Cool. So, Scott,
1:19.5	you're there. I don't even know the details of all of what you do, but certainly some of it is
1:23.6	like contributing back, which feels like a very Scott thing to do. So one of the things that we'll talk about is that your work at ScourseW is touched the
1:32.5	web in a deeper way just recently.
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