This updates this initial PR here https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/18146 to resolve merge conflicts and updates tests since we aren't able to update that PR itself.
## Feature
- [ ] Implements an existing feature request or RFC. Make sure the feature request has been accepted for implementation before opening a PR.
- [ ] Related issues linked using `fixes #number`
- [x] Integration tests added
- [x] Documentation added
- [ ] Telemetry added. In case of a feature if it's used or not.
Closes: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/18146
There's currently two bugs with the font optimization, but we'd really like to ship a stable version.
To unblock the stable release, we're **temporarily** reflagging this. It'll be unflagged on canary again!
This PR adds a second experimental post-processing step for the framework introduced by @prateekbh in #14746. The image post-processing step scans the rendered document for the first few images and uses a simple heuristic to determine if the images should be automatically preloaded.
Analysis of quite a few production Next apps has shown that a lot of sites are taking a substantial hit to their [LCP](https://web.dev/lcp/) score because an image that's part of the "hero" element on the page is not preloaded and is getting downloaded with lower priority than the JavaScript bundles. This post-processor should automatically fix that for a lot of sites, without causing any real performance effects in cases where it fails to identify the hero image.
This feature is behind an experimental flag, and will be subject to quite a bit of experimentation and tweaking before it's ready to be made a default setting.
