Avoid loading undisplayed images on front page

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WordPress theme for Atlas main site.

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Avoid loading undisplayed images on front page #3

Closed matthewandrews closed 8 years ago

matthewandrews commented 8 years ago

On browser widths below 768px (i.e. most mobiles), the six featured panel images are not displayed, but are actually downloaded anyway (they are img elements). We should avoid this download to reduce the page weight, particularly for those on slow mobile-data connections.

matthewandrews commented 8 years ago

This change is done in develop branch (img elements replaced with divs which have css background images on widths over 768px, no bg image on smaller viewports).

matthewandrews commented 8 years ago

Merged to master, tested and released to production.