Lazy Load for CSS Images - php

Question

I have the following lazy load function which works for <img>.
<script>
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
var lazyloadImages;
if ("IntersectionObserver" in window) {
lazyloadImages = document.querySelectorAll(".lazy");
var imageObserver = new IntersectionObserver(function(entries, observer) {
entries.forEach(function(entry) {
if (entry.isIntersecting) {
var image = entry.target;
image.src = image.dataset.src;
image.classList.remove("lazy");
imageObserver.unobserve(image);
}
});
});
lazyloadImages.forEach(function(image) {
imageObserver.observe(image);
});
} else {
var lazyloadThrottleTimeout;
lazyloadImages = document.querySelectorAll(".lazy");
function lazyload () {
if(lazyloadThrottleTimeout) {
clearTimeout(lazyloadThrottleTimeout);
}
lazyloadThrottleTimeout = setTimeout(function() {
var scrollTop = window.pageYOffset;
lazyloadImages.forEach(function(img) {
if(img.offsetTop < (window.innerHeight + scrollTop)) {
img.src = img.dataset.src;
img.classList.remove('lazy');
}
});
if(lazyloadImages.length == 0) {
document.removeEventListener("scroll", lazyload);
window.removeEventListener("resize", lazyload);
window.removeEventListener("orientationChange", lazyload);
}
}, 20);
}
document.addEventListener("scroll", lazyload);
window.addEventListener("resize", lazyload);
window.addEventListener("orientationChange", lazyload);
}
})
</script>
The function isn't mine and I need to know how to modify it to work for the next example which load images from CSS:
<div class="col-md-2 col-sm-3 col-xs-4 photo" style="padding: 2.5px">
<span onclick="window.location.href=\''.$link.'\';"
class="thumbnail"
role="img"
style="background-image: url(\''.$image.'\'); cursor: pointer; margin: 0; margin-top: 5px;"
aria-label="' . $row["topic_title"] . '"
title="'.$row['topic_title'].'">
</span>
<center>
<p class="name" style="margin 0 2px; color: white; margin-top: 5px;">
' . $title . '
</p>
</center>
</div>
On a page with 24 gifs, the page loads relatively slow and I'd like to change that.
I could load the images as normal using <img>, but I want the page to be more dynamic because using span I have different temathic.
Here is how I managed to do the script and it works correctly.
Hope someone will find it useful.
if (entry.isIntersecting) {
var image = entry.target;
image.src = image.dataset.src;
var imageUrl = "url" + "(" + "'" + image.src + "')";
entry.target.style.backgroundImage = imageUrl;
image.classList.remove("lazy");
imageObserver.unobserve(image);
}

Answer 1

On a page with 24 gifs, the page loads relatively slow and I'd like to
change that.
Images in general are really heavy on websites. That's most likely whats slowing the site down. If your website needs that many GIFs I would firstly look at compression techniques. Search for GIF to WebP converters and file compressors (ImageAlpha, ImageOptim, Handbrake to name a few).
Good luck!