7.1 background image lazy loading - how to stop it

I am running into this problem as well. It looks really bad when the image just jumps onto the screen. Can anyone from the Squarespace team help address this please? 

I think this is Animation Feature??  You can disable it in Site Styles..

Hey, I thought I'd follow up with some more findings.

I think Squarespace might have fixed this issue I described because I don't notice the blank space when scrolling back up a website after a page refresh.

On a side not, it turns out you can use the Squarespace imageLoader function in 7.1, so you can control when Squarespace fetches an image file.

This has been very useful for a client's website that has a huge gallery with lots of images.  As you scroll down, Squarespace loads the image file as you get to it. So it momentarily displays a blank space followed by a glitchy (not-smooth) image reveal.  I've overwritten this to lazy-load the images 500px before they appear on screen, meaning the image has already loaded by the time you scroll to it, and the fade-in animation is nice and smooth.

I am going to develop this as a plugin because I think it's a really useful feature. Let me know if you'd be interested, thanks.

Andrew

Andrew, I'd be interested in a plugin like this for my photography site because I have lots of images to share, but don't want to impede my page load time and also don't want it to look glitchy when the images load as you scroll. Thanks!