Unloads img.lazyload (including picture) elements if they consume a lot of memory and they are out of view. To improve memory consumption as also resize/orientationchange performance.
Simply add the lazysizes unload extension to your site.
lazySizesConfig.unloadClass(default:"lazyunload"): Elements with this class will be unloaded even if they only consume less memory/pixels than defined inunloadPixelThreshold.lazySizesConfig.unloadedClass(default:"lazyunloaded"): If an element was unloaded it becomes the classlazyunloaded.lazySizesConfig.unloadPixelThreshold(default: Number is dynamically calculated): If the amount of image pixels exceeds this threshold this image will be unloaded.lazySizesConfig.autoUnload(default:true): Whether unloading should happen automatically with all lazyload images. If set to false, only elements with the classlazyunloadwill be unloaded.lazySizesConfig.emptySrc(default: transparent data uri): The src to be used as unload image.lazySizesConfig.unloadHidden(default:true): Whether hidden images (display: none;) also should be unloaded.
Note: In case you dynamically change the data-src/data-srcset of an already unloaded element, you have to remove the lazyunloaded class.
lazyafterunload: This event will be fired on the unloaded lazyload elements. This event can be used to extend the unload functionality.
//div ajax example which returns DOM string:
document.addEventListener('lazybeforeunveil', function (e) {
var containerId = e.target.getAttribute('data-id');
//load ajax content with containerId
//append content to e.target.innerHTML
});
//clean DOM nodes inside container that where previously loaded by ajax:
//lazyafterunload gives possibility to take care of the cleanup in this case
document.addEventListener('lazyafterunload', function (e) {
var container = e.target;
while (container.firstElementChild) {
container.removeChild(container.firstElementChild);
}
});