User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/The Success and Future of Modernization/@comment-1474707-20180125202821/@comment-20644-20180126014503

FANDOM editorial articles are currently lazy-loaded on the new design. There's a skeleton of more articles loaded underneath, but that doesn't have any impact on page performance.

As we move into 2018, one thing we're focusing on is going beyond the average page load time. We want to slice the page load time even thinner so that you get what you're looking for immediately and the rest of the background stuff comes in later.

Take this article for instance. If you click on that article from the FANDOM homepage, there are a few things you need to begin consuming content: the image, the byline, and the text of the article. All of that is loaded, on average, in about 1.5 seconds. Over the next several seconds, more of the page starts to load in the background. The key there is to make sure that you get the content you were looking for as quickly as possible and can start interacting with the page.

So it doesn't really make a difference on your ability to access the content you were looking for if there are shells of articles below it. All that's being fetched there initially is text, and everything else&mdash;images, content feeds, advertisements&mdash;are loaded as you spend more time in the page.

These are developments that will carry over to more of the site as well, not just FANDOM editorial. For example we'll have a similar release on Discussions soon. It's all done with the goal of making sure you get the content you want and can interact with the page as quickly as possible.

If you're interested in learning more about how we're approaching this, check out this video from Google.