by Leigh Ann Ledford
August 30, 2022
Alignment between teams is a huge challenge for many businesses, especially when it comes to asset management and visual media optimization. Content managers, who strive for better asset management, and web developers, who strive for better visual media delivery, live in silos despite their best intentions. As a result, many websites struggle to meet the goals of both teams, resulting in poor web performance and slow content cycles.
But what if this didn’t have to be the case?
This is why we are excited to announce the Asset Embedding feature, now available in the Asset Manager.
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by Nick Switzer, Senior Solution Engineer at Contentful
August 24, 2022

Over the past few years, consumers increasingly expect digital interactions to be personalized and seamless across channels. Despite this shift, content creators and developers still find themselves stuck in rigid, legacy content management systems that can’t keep up.
Businesses that provide more personalized, omnichannel, and visually optimized user experiences see better results and greater customer loyalty. The key to successfully building and maintaining a modern web experience lies in an API-first, cloud-based ecosystem with a headless CMS and a visual media platform at the center.
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by Tom Dale
June 17, 2022

If you ever run a PageSpeed Insights analysis, you will likely see "defer offscreen images", also called lazy loading, as one of the improvement opportunities. In this article, which is the last installment of a three-part series on Core Web Vitals and image optimization, we’ll focus on lazy loading and talk about what it is, why it’s important, and how to implement it.
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by Nicole Zucco
May 26, 2022

In our last blog, we showed how to use Core Web Vitals (CWV) to evaluate your website’s performance. One of the most important CWV data points is Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Because images are often the largest component on a web page, they heavily influence the LCP metric. The PageSpeed Insights tool lists which images on a site are slowing things down.
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by Cong Cao
May 26, 2022

Website speed matters. Nearly 70% of consumers admit that page speed impacts their willingness to buy from an online store. But did you know that Google increasingly weighs the quality of the user experience and page performance in its search algorithm? Google recently updated its Core Web Vitals (CWV) report and provided guidance on the most important metrics about page performance. In this blog, we’ll talk about what CWV are, what they measure, and how images impact CWV.
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by Eric Sanchez
April 11, 2022

Whether you are an e-commerce product manager or developer, the quality of the product images is critical to maximizing sales. Proper image optimization creates a compelling, responsive, and fast-loading experience on any device and browser. Effective image management can save you time and avoid errors as your images multiply.
This kind of end-to-end image workflow has always been easy for imgix customers. Now we’re making it available for Adobe Commerce users. The imgix integration helps users organize, visualize, and optimize product images with ease and accuracy.
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