Faire
Software EngineerFoundationalAug 6, 2026

Diagnose mobile product-gallery LCP regression

Product discovery often depends on whether a catalog can be evaluated before attention moves on.

Image quality and page speed tend to pull in different directions on smaller connections.

I can’t wait around for photos to load when I’ve got people in the shop.

Bibi Kayitesi · Owner, neighborhood gift shop

She uses her phone to compare products and build a short list between serving customers.

What pulls against what

  • image fidelity vs. page speed
  • global mitigation vs. targeted repair
  • mobile constraints vs. product evaluation

What is at stake

Slow imagery makes product evaluation feel unreliable at the exact moment retailers are deciding what to stock

Why Faire

At Faire, this can matter because independent retailers often make assortment decisions in short, interrupted sessions.

Written for

Performance-minded product engineerFrontend systems engineer

This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.