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. That mattered more // than it looks. The hero is applied as a CSS background-image, and the // browser's preload scanner — which races ahead through the raw HTML starting // fetches — cannot see background images at all. It only discovers one after // the stylesheet has downloaded AND the element has been matched to the rule, // several round trips later. The hero is the largest thing on the page, so // that is the Largest Contentful Paint measurement being taken the slowest // possible way. // // Resolving the path up here, before header.php writes , lets header.php // emit a for it, which the scanner does see. The markup // below is unchanged and still uses $hero_bg exactly as before. $hero_bg = ''; foreach (['jpg','jpeg','png','webp'] as $_e) { $_f = BASE_DIR . 'images/site/hero_1.' . $_e; if (file_exists($_f)) { $hero_bg = 'images/site/hero_1.' . $_e . '?v=' . filemtime($_f); break; } } $page_preload_image = $hero_bg; // ---- HERO VIDEO: THE SAME TRICK, FOR THE SAME REASON ---- // Resolved up here rather than down in the markup so the decision is made // once, before is written. The film is optional: drop // images/site/hero.mp4 (and optionally hero.webm, which is smaller) next to // the hero still and the top panel becomes film. Delete the file and the // page silently goes back to being the photograph it is today. // // The poster is that same hero still, so the first frame a visitor sees is // identical whether the film loads or not — and on a metered connection, or // for anyone who has asked for reduced motion, the still is all that loads. // Two folders are searched, not one. The upload folder stages the media in a // directory called images-site because a nested images/site cannot live // inside it, and dragging that folder onto the server lands it at // /images-site/ — which is exactly what happened, and cost an evening of me // insisting the file had not been uploaded when it had. Looking in both // costs one is_file() call and means the film plays either way. $hero_video_sources = []; foreach (["webm" => "video/webm", "mp4" => "video/mp4"] as $_ve => $_vt) { foreach (["images/site/", "images-site/"] as $_vdir) { $_vf = BASE_DIR . $_vdir . "hero." . $_ve; if (is_file($_vf)) { $hero_video_sources[] = [ "src" => $_vdir . "hero." . $_ve . "?v=" . filemtime($_vf), "type" => $_vt, ]; break; } } } $hero_video_poster = $hero_bg; require_once __DIR__ . '/header.php'; ?>
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