This allows the browser to reserve precisely enough space for the image before it loads.īecause next/image is designed to guarantee good performance results, it cannot be used in a way that will contribute to layout shift, and must be sized in one of three ways: The way to avoid image-based layout shifts is to always size your images.
This performance problem is so annoying to users that it has its own Core Web Vital, called Cumulative Layout Shift. One of the ways that images most commonly hurt performance is through layout shift, where the image pushes other elements around on the page as it loads in. See more about priority in the next/image component documentation.