Phone audit: 78 ESPN <img> at naturalWidth:0, ZERO espncdn/mlbstatic requests
ever fire — the browser never attempts the fetch. CSP was NOT the cause (img-src
already allows a.espncdn.com + img.mlbstatic.com, confirmed in the live header).
Root cause = native loading="lazy" on the tiny entity <img>s never triggering on
device (the audit's suspect b). TeamLogo + PlayerAvatar now load="eager"
(+ decoding="async") — they're 10-40px core-visual entities, so eager is correct
and cheap, and it forces the fetch on parse regardless of size/viewport.
Browser-request confirmation is the audit's Chrome domain (I can't observe
network from server curls); eager semantics guarantee the fetch once the src
(which 200s server-side) is in the DOM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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