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← All changes | includes/class-resource-hints-processor.php +634 -16 1.1.5 → 1.3.6 View file →
@@ -3,15 +3,18 @@
3 3 * Resource Hints processor — pure HTML transformer for resource hints.
4 4 *
5 5 * Given a fully-rendered page and the Preload module's options, it:
6 6 * 1. Ranks every eligible <img> by the largest declared size it can read —
7 - * width×height attributes, else the widest srcset candidate — and emits
7 + * width×height attributes, else the widest srcset candidate — boosted by
8 + * the author's own priority signals (fetchpriority="high", an explicit
9 + * loading="eager") and lightly weighted by document position, and emits
8 10 * a <link rel="preload" as="image" fetchpriority="high"> for the top N
9 11 * in the <head>, carrying srcset/sizes as imagesrcset/imagesizes so the
10 12 * browser can pick the right candidate — then adds fetchpriority="high"
11 - * to the <img> itself so it beats any loading="lazy" the theme set.
12 - * Ranking by size rather than document position: the first images on a
13 - * real page are usually header chrome, not the hero (#96).
13 + * to the <img> itself. Ranking by size rather than document position:
14 + * the first images on a real page are usually header chrome, not the
15 + * hero (#96). Images inside <footer>/<nav>/<aside>, images the theme
16 + * explicitly lazy-loads, and tiny images never compete (FBS-84576).
14 17 * 2. Emits <link rel="preconnect"> for detected web-font hosts
15 18 * (fonts.googleapis.com + fonts.gstatic.com) and any user-supplied
16 19 * hosts, deduped.
17 20 *
@@ -60,8 +63,20 @@
60 63 [ $html, $preload ] = self::build_lcp_preload( $html, $count, $exclusions );
61 64 $hints .= $preload;
62 65 }
63 66
67 + // The manual list runs AFTER the automatic pick so it can deduplicate
68 + // against it: a URL both name should carry ONE hint, not two. It exists
69 + // for the image the detector cannot see — most often a hero section's
70 + // CSS background-image, where the LCP element is a <div> with none of
71 + // the width/height/fetchpriority signals the scorer reads. On the site
72 + // that surfaced this, 3.3s of a 5.3s mobile LCP was pure discovery
73 + // delay for exactly such an image. (FBS-84578)
74 + $manual = array_filter( array_map( 'strval', (array) ( $opts['preload_images'] ?? array() ) ) );
75 + if ( ! empty( $manual ) ) {
76 + $hints .= self::build_manual_image_preloads( $manual, $hints );
77 + }
78 +
64 79 // Full-page eager promotion for Lazy-excluded heroes (FBS-83553 H2). The
65 80 // Lazy module only filters the_content/thumbnail/avatar/widget, so a
66 81 // theme/builder hero printed OUTSIDE those keeps WP core's
67 82 // loading="lazy". This pass runs over the whole document, so it can reach
@@ -80,8 +95,61 @@
80 95 return self::inject_into_head( $html, $hints );
81 96 }
82 97
83 98 /**
99 + * How many entries of the manual preload list are honoured. Preloading
100 + * competes with the page for its top network priority — a long list
101 + * inverts the benefit, so the cap is deliberately small.
102 + */
103 + private const MAX_MANUAL_PRELOADS = 3;
104 +
105 + /**
106 + * One `<link rel="preload" as="image">` per manual list entry.
107 + *
108 + * Entries are full URLs or site-relative paths. Anything that is neither
109 + * (a data: URI, a bare word) is skipped rather than guessed at, and a URL
110 + * the automatic pick already emitted is skipped too — one hint per image,
111 + * whoever names it first.
112 + *
113 + * @param array<int,string> $urls The configured list.
114 + * @param string $existing_hints Hints already built this request.
115 + */
116 + private static function build_manual_image_preloads( array $urls, string $existing_hints ): string {
117 + /**
118 + * Filter the manual image-preload list before it is emitted.
119 + *
120 + * @param array<int,string> $urls Configured URLs, in panel order.
121 + */
122 + $urls = (array) apply_filters( 'xspeed_preload_images', $urls );
123 +
124 + $out = '';
125 + $seen = array();
126 + foreach ( $urls as $url ) {
127 + $url = trim( (string) $url );
128 + if ( '' === $url ) {
129 + continue;
130 + }
131 + // A full URL or a site-relative path; nothing else is guessable.
132 + $is_absolute = (bool) preg_match( '#^https?://#i', $url );
133 + $is_relative = '' !== $url && '/' === $url[0] && ( strlen( $url ) < 2 || '/' !== $url[1] );
134 + if ( ! $is_absolute && ! $is_relative ) {
135 + continue;
136 + }
137 + $href = esc_url( $url );
138 + if ( '' === $href || isset( $seen[ $href ] ) || false !== strpos( $existing_hints, 'href="' . $href . '"' ) ) {
139 + continue;
140 + }
141 + $seen[ $href ] = true;
142 + $out .= '<link rel="preload" as="image" href="' . $href . '" fetchpriority="high">';
143 + if ( count( $seen ) >= self::MAX_MANUAL_PRELOADS ) {
144 + break;
145 + }
146 + }
147 +
148 + return $out;
149 + }
150 +
151 + /**
84 152 * Strip core `loading="lazy"` and add `fetchpriority="high"` +
85 153 * `decoding="async"` on every <img> whose tag matches one of the given
86 154 * exclusion substrings. Mirrors what Lazy_Loader does for an excluded image
87 155 * inside the_content, but page-wide so heroes outside it are covered too.
@@ -187,11 +255,14 @@
187 255 // nothing — it just adds a high-priority request competing with the
188 256 // one that matters, and the feature reported success either way. The
189 257 // marker list and size gate were heuristics layered on top of the
190 258 // wrong primitive rather than replacing it. (#96)
191 - $candidates = array();
192 - if ( preg_match_all( '#<img\b[^>]*>#i', $html, $matches ) ) {
193 - foreach ( $matches[0] as $index => $tag ) {
259 + $candidates = array();
260 + $skip_ranges = self::chrome_container_ranges( $html );
261 + if ( preg_match_all( '#<img\b[^>]*>#i', $html, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE ) ) {
262 + foreach ( $matches[0] as $index => $match ) {
263 + [ $tag, $offset ] = $match;
264 +
194 265 // Skip anything the user excluded.
195 266 $excluded = false;
196 267 foreach ( $exclusions as $needle ) {
197 268 if ( '' !== $needle && false !== stripos( $tag, $needle ) ) {
@@ -202,8 +273,25 @@
202 273 if ( $excluded ) {
203 274 continue;
204 275 }
205 276
277 + // An image inside <footer>/<nav>/<aside> is site chrome by
278 + // construction — a footer brand strip or FAQ illustration can
279 + // never be the LCP element, whatever size it declares. On the
280 + // FBS-84576 repro these decoys outranked the real hero three
281 + // times on one layout.
282 + if ( self::offset_in_ranges( $offset, $skip_ranges ) ) {
283 + continue;
284 + }
285 +
286 + // An image the theme explicitly lazy-loads is never the
287 + // intended LCP — the author has already said "this can wait".
288 + // Preloading it would contradict the markup and steal
289 + // bandwidth from the image that matters. (FBS-84576)
290 + if ( 'lazy' === strtolower( self::attr( $tag, 'loading' ) ) ) {
291 + continue;
292 + }
293 +
206 294 // Resolve the EFFECTIVE image URL. Page builders + JS lazy
207 295 // loaders park a placeholder (a data: URI or a 1px spacer) in
208 296 // `src` and the real URL in `data-src`, so the hero the browser
209 297 // actually paints is behind data-src. (FBS-83553 H1)
@@ -222,14 +310,44 @@
222 310 'tag' => $tag,
223 311 'src' => $src,
224 312 'srcset' => $srcset,
225 313 'sizes' => $sizes,
226 - 'score' => self::lcp_score( $tag, $srcset ),
314 + 'score' => self::weighted_score( self::lcp_score( $tag, $srcset ), $tag, $index ),
227 315 'order' => $index,
228 316 );
229 317 }
230 318 }
231 319
320 + // PASS 1b — the same for CSS background images.
321 + //
322 + // On a page builder the hero is usually a background-image on the
323 + // section, not an <img>, so an <img>-only candidate set never contained
324 + // the element that actually paints as LCP. It preloaded whatever <img>
325 + // happened to be there — measured at 0ms against the feature switched
326 + // off, while spending a high-priority fetch on the critical path — or,
327 + // on a page with no <img> at all, emitted nothing. (#247)
328 + foreach ( self::background_candidates( $html, $exclusions, $skip_ranges ) as $bg ) {
329 + $candidates[] = $bg;
330 + }
331 +
332 + // PASS 1c — <video poster="…">. A full-screen hero video paints its
333 + // poster first, and that first frame IS the LCP; measured on a live
334 + // page, a preloaded poster cut the LCP load delay from 1.5 s to 21 ms.
335 + foreach ( self::video_poster_candidates( $html, $exclusions, $skip_ranges ) as $vp ) {
336 + $candidates[] = $vp;
337 + }
338 +
339 + // PASS 1d — background rules in inline <style> blocks. Page builders
340 + // put the hero's background-image in generated per-post CSS printed
341 + // inline (Elementor's `.elementor-N .elementor-element-X` rules), not
342 + // in a style attribute — so PASS 1b never saw the element that
343 + // actually paints as LCP on five of seven measured sites. External
344 + // stylesheets stay out for the same reasons as before (#247): fetching
345 + // CSS from an output-buffer pass costs more than the preload saves.
346 + foreach ( self::style_block_candidates( $html, $exclusions, $skip_ranges ) as $sb ) {
347 + $candidates[] = $sb;
348 + }
349 +
232 350 if ( empty( $candidates ) ) {
233 351 return array( $html, '' );
234 352 }
235 353
@@ -261,9 +379,15 @@
261 379 );
262 380 if ( ! $already ) {
263 381 $preload .= self::preload_link( $w['src'], $w['srcset'], $w['sizes'] );
264 382 }
265 - $chosen[ $w['order'] ] = true;
383 + // Only <img> winners are promoted in PASS 2 — there is no
384 + // fetchpriority/loading attribute to fix on a background element,
385 + // and its `order` is offset past every <img> index precisely so it
386 + // can never select one for rewriting.
387 + if ( empty( $w['background'] ) ) {
388 + $chosen[ $w['order'] ] = true;
389 + }
266 390 }
267 391
268 392 // Rewrite only the winning tags. Counting occurrences rather than
269 393 // matching on tag text, because the same markup can legitimately
@@ -290,8 +414,381 @@
290 414 return array( (string) $html, $preload );
291 415 }
292 416
293 417 /**
418 + * Collect CSS `background-image` heroes as LCP candidates.
419 + *
420 + * Only INLINE `style` attributes are read. A background declared in an
421 + * external stylesheet is invisible here by design: resolving it would mean
422 + * fetching and parsing CSS from inside an output-buffer pass, and the URL a
423 + * selector resolves to depends on cascade order we cannot evaluate from
424 + * markup. Builders that put the hero in a generated per-post stylesheet are
425 + * therefore still unserved — worth doing, but not at this cost. (#247)
426 + *
427 + * Scores are the element's declared pixel area so a background competes
428 + * against an <img> in the SAME units — the whole point being that the
429 + * bigger of the two should win regardless of which kind it is.
430 + *
431 + * @param string $html Full page HTML.
432 + * @param string[] $exclusions Substring patterns the user excluded.
433 + * @param array<int,array{0:int,1:int}> $skip_ranges Byte ranges of chrome containers.
434 + * @return array<int,array{tag:string,src:string,srcset:string,sizes:string,score:float,order:int,background:bool}>
435 + */
436 + private static function background_candidates( string $html, array $exclusions, array $skip_ranges ): array {
437 + if ( ! preg_match_all( '#<(?:div|section|header|figure|a|span|li|main|article|aside)\b[^>]*\sstyle\s*=\s*(["\']).*?\1[^>]*>#is', $html, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE ) ) {
438 + return array();
439 + }
440 +
441 + $found = array();
442 + foreach ( $matches[0] as $index => $match ) {
443 + [ $tag, $offset ] = $match;
444 +
445 + // The same chrome-container gate as <img>: a background painted
446 + // inside <footer>/<nav>/<aside> is never the hero. (FBS-84576)
447 + if ( self::offset_in_ranges( $offset, $skip_ranges ) ) {
448 + continue;
449 + }
450 +
451 + $style = self::attr( $tag, 'style' );
452 + if ( '' === $style || false === stripos( $style, 'background' ) ) {
453 + continue;
454 + }
455 +
456 + $src = self::background_url( $style );
457 + if ( '' === $src ) {
458 + continue;
459 + }
460 +
461 + foreach ( $exclusions as $needle ) {
462 + if ( '' !== $needle && false !== stripos( $tag, $needle ) ) {
463 + continue 2;
464 + }
465 + }
466 +
467 + // Same chrome/opt-out gates as <img>. A logo painted as a background
468 + // is no more the hero than a logo in an <img>.
469 + if ( self::looks_too_small( $tag ) ) {
470 + continue;
471 + }
472 +
473 + $area = self::style_area( $style );
474 + if ( 0 === $area ) {
475 + // Nothing readable. Deliberately non-zero for the same reason
476 + // UNKNOWN_SIZE_SCORE is: an unmeasurable background must still
477 + // beat nothing on a page that declares no sizes at all, while
478 + // losing to anything we can actually measure.
479 + $area = self::UNKNOWN_SIZE_SCORE;
480 + }
481 +
482 + $found[] = array(
483 + 'tag' => $tag,
484 + 'src' => $src,
485 + 'srcset' => '',
486 + 'sizes' => '',
487 + 'score' => (float) $area,
488 + // Offset so a background never ties ahead of an <img> that
489 + // appeared earlier in the document; ties still break on order.
490 + 'order' => 100000 + $index,
491 + 'background' => true,
492 + );
493 + }
494 +
495 + return $found;
496 + }
497 +
498 + /**
499 + * Collect `<video poster="…">` first frames as LCP candidates.
500 + *
501 + * The poster is what the viewer sees until (and unless) the video plays —
502 + * on a background-video hero, delayed by the Lazy module, it is the ONLY
503 + * frame the initial paint has. Scored like a background: the element's
504 + * declared inline-style area, or the unknown-size floor, with the order
505 + * offset past every <img> so a poster never ties ahead of one.
506 + *
507 + * @param string $html Full page HTML.
508 + * @param string[] $exclusions Substring patterns the user excluded.
509 + * @param array<int,array{0:int,1:int}> $skip_ranges Byte ranges of chrome containers.
510 + * @return array<int,array{tag:string,src:string,srcset:string,sizes:string,score:float,order:int,background:bool}>
511 + */
512 + private static function video_poster_candidates( string $html, array $exclusions, array $skip_ranges ): array {
513 + if ( ! preg_match_all( '#<video\b[^>]*\bposter\s*=\s*(["\'])(.*?)\1[^>]*>#i', $html, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE ) ) {
514 + return array();
515 + }
516 +
517 + $found = array();
518 + foreach ( $matches[0] as $index => $match ) {
519 + [ $tag, $offset ] = $match;
520 + $src = trim( html_entity_decode( $matches[2][ $index ][0], ENT_QUOTES ) );
521 + if ( '' === $src || 0 === stripos( $src, 'data:' ) ) {
522 + continue;
523 + }
524 + if ( self::offset_in_ranges( $offset, $skip_ranges ) ) {
525 + continue;
526 + }
527 + foreach ( $exclusions as $needle ) {
528 + if ( '' !== $needle && false !== stripos( $tag, $needle ) ) {
529 + continue 2;
530 + }
531 + }
532 + if ( self::looks_too_small( $tag ) ) {
533 + continue;
534 + }
535 +
536 + $area = self::style_area( self::attr( $tag, 'style' ) );
537 + if ( 0 === $area ) {
538 + $area = self::UNKNOWN_SIZE_SCORE;
539 + }
540 +
541 + $found[] = array(
542 + 'tag' => $tag,
543 + 'src' => $src,
544 + 'srcset' => '',
545 + 'sizes' => '',
546 + 'score' => (float) $area,
547 + 'order' => 100000 + $index,
548 + 'background' => true,
549 + );
550 + }
551 +
552 + return $found;
553 + }
554 +
555 + /**
556 + * How many <style>-block background rules are considered per page. The
557 + * scan is linear, but each rule costs one class-lookup pass over the
558 + * body, so a pathological page (thousands of generated rules) is capped
559 + * rather than trusted.
560 + */
561 + private const STYLE_RULE_BUDGET = 40;
562 +
563 + /**
564 + * Collect background-image rules from inline <style> blocks whose
565 + * selector matches an element in the body.
566 + *
567 + * The match is deliberately narrow: the rule's RIGHTMOST simple selector
568 + * must carry a class or id, and the first element in the body bearing it
569 + * (outside chrome containers) is taken as the painted element. Rules
570 + * inside @media (or any other at-rule block) are skipped — a desktop-only
571 + * background preloaded on mobile is a wasted high-priority fetch, and the
572 + * markup gives no viewport to resolve the query against.
573 + *
574 + * @param string $html Full page HTML.
575 + * @param string[] $exclusions Substring patterns the user excluded.
576 + * @param array<int,array{0:int,1:int}> $skip_ranges Byte ranges of chrome containers.
577 + * @return array<int,array{tag:string,src:string,srcset:string,sizes:string,score:float,order:int,background:bool}>
578 + */
579 + private static function style_block_candidates( string $html, array $exclusions, array $skip_ranges ): array {
580 + if ( ! preg_match_all( '#<style\b[^>]*>(.*?)</style\s*>#is', $html, $blocks ) ) {
581 + return array();
582 + }
583 +
584 + $found = array();
585 + $budget = self::STYLE_RULE_BUDGET;
586 + foreach ( $blocks[1] as $css ) {
587 + if ( $budget <= 0 ) {
588 + break;
589 + }
590 + $css = self::strip_at_rule_blocks( $css );
591 + if ( false === stripos( $css, 'url(' ) ) {
592 + continue;
593 + }
594 + // One flat rule at a time: selector list up to '{', body to '}'.
595 + if ( ! preg_match_all( '#(?:^|})\s*([^{}]{1,512})\{([^{}]*)\}#s', $css, $rules, PREG_SET_ORDER ) ) {
596 + continue;
597 + }
598 + foreach ( $rules as $rule ) {
599 + if ( $budget <= 0 ) {
600 + break 2;
601 + }
602 + if ( false === stripos( $rule[2], 'url(' ) ) {
603 + continue;
604 + }
605 + $src = self::background_url( $rule[2] );
606 + if ( '' === $src ) {
607 + continue;
608 + }
609 + --$budget;
610 + // First selector of the list, rightmost compound of it.
611 + $selector = trim( (string) strtok( $rule[1], ',' ) );
612 + $parts = preg_split( '#[\s>+~]+#', $selector );
613 + $last = (string) end( $parts );
614 + // The last class or id token of that compound. Pseudo-classes
615 + // (:hover, ::before) mean the background is not the initial
616 + // paint, so they disqualify the rule.
617 + if ( false !== strpos( $last, ':' ) ) {
618 + continue;
619 + }
620 + if ( ! preg_match( '#([.\#])([-\w]+)$#', $last, $tok ) ) {
621 + continue;
622 + }
623 + $el = '.' === $tok[1]
624 + ? self::first_element_with_class( $html, $tok[2], $skip_ranges )
625 + : self::first_element_with_id( $html, $tok[2], $skip_ranges );
626 + if ( null === $el ) {
627 + continue;
628 + }
629 + [ $tag, $offset ] = $el;
630 + foreach ( $exclusions as $needle ) {
631 + if ( '' !== $needle && false !== stripos( $tag, $needle ) ) {
632 + continue 2;
633 + }
634 + }
635 + if ( self::looks_too_small( $tag ) ) {
636 + continue;
637 + }
638 + $area = self::style_area( self::attr( $tag, 'style' ) );
639 + if ( 0 === $area ) {
640 + $area = self::UNKNOWN_SIZE_SCORE;
641 + }
642 + $found[] = array(
643 + 'tag' => $tag,
644 + 'src' => $src,
645 + 'srcset' => '',
646 + 'sizes' => '',
647 + 'score' => (float) $area,
648 + // Offset past the inline-style backgrounds: a rule-matched
649 + // background is one inference step less certain, so it must
650 + // never tie ahead of one read straight off the element.
651 + 'order' => 200000 + $offset,
652 + 'background' => true,
653 + );
654 + }
655 + }
656 +
657 + return $found;
658 + }
659 +
660 + /**
661 + * CSS with every at-rule BLOCK (@media, @supports, @container, …) removed,
662 + * by brace depth — a regex cannot pair nested braces. Flat at-rules
663 + * (@import, @charset) have no block and pass through harmlessly.
664 + */
665 + private static function strip_at_rule_blocks( string $css ): string {
666 + $out = '';
667 + $len = strlen( $css );
668 + $i = 0;
669 + while ( $i < $len ) {
670 + $at = strpos( $css, '@', $i );
671 + if ( false === $at ) {
672 + return $out . substr( $css, $i );
673 + }
674 + $brace = strpos( $css, '{', $at );
675 + $semi = strpos( $css, ';', $at );
676 + $out .= substr( $css, $i, $at - $i );
677 + if ( false === $brace || ( false !== $semi && $semi < $brace ) ) {
678 + // Flat at-rule — skip to its semicolon (or end).
679 + $i = false === $semi ? $len : $semi + 1;
680 + continue;
681 + }
682 + // Block at-rule — skip to its matching close brace.
683 + $depth = 1;
684 + $i = $brace + 1;
685 + while ( $i < $len && $depth > 0 ) {
686 + $c = $css[ $i ];
687 + if ( '{' === $c ) {
688 + ++$depth;
689 + } elseif ( '}' === $c ) {
690 + --$depth;
691 + }
692 + ++$i;
693 + }
694 + }
695 + return $out;
696 + }
697 +
698 + /**
699 + * The first element in the BODY carrying $class (outside chrome ranges),
700 + * as [tag, offset], or null. Body-only, so a head <meta> can never match
701 + * and a hit's offset is comparable with the chrome ranges.
702 + *
703 + * @return array{0:string,1:int}|null
704 + */
705 + private static function first_element_with_class( string $html, string $class, array $skip_ranges ): ?array {
706 + $body = stripos( $html, '<body' );
707 + $from = false === $body ? 0 : $body;
708 + if ( ! preg_match_all( '#<[a-z][^>]*\bclass\s*=\s*(["\'])[^"\']*(?<![-\w])' . preg_quote( $class, '#' ) . '(?![-\w])[^"\']*\1[^>]*>#i', $html, $m, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, $from ) ) {
709 + return null;
710 + }
711 + foreach ( $m[0] as $match ) {
712 + if ( ! self::offset_in_ranges( $match[1], $skip_ranges ) ) {
713 + return array( $match[0], $match[1] );
714 + }
715 + }
716 + return null;
717 + }
718 +
719 + /**
720 + * The first element carrying id="$id" (outside chrome ranges), as
721 + * [tag, offset], or null.
722 + *
723 + * @return array{0:string,1:int}|null
724 + */
725 + private static function first_element_with_id( string $html, string $id, array $skip_ranges ): ?array {
726 + $body = stripos( $html, '<body' );
727 + $from = false === $body ? 0 : $body;
728 + if ( ! preg_match( '#<[a-z][^>]*\bid\s*=\s*(["\'])' . preg_quote( $id, '#' ) . '\1[^>]*>#i', $html, $m, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, $from ) ) {
729 + return null;
730 + }
731 + if ( self::offset_in_ranges( $m[0][1], $skip_ranges ) ) {
732 + return null;
733 + }
734 + return array( $m[0][0], $m[0][1] );
735 + }
736 +
737 + /**
738 + * Pull a real image URL out of a `background`/`background-image` declaration.
739 + *
740 + * Returns '' for anything with nothing to fetch: a gradient (which is a
741 + * background-image but not a resource), a data: URI, or `none`.
742 + */
743 + private static function background_url( string $style ): string {
744 + // Decode BEFORE parsing. Builders emit the url() quotes HTML-encoded
745 + // inside a style attribute (url(&quot;/hero.jpg&quot;)), and `&quot;`
746 + // carries a semicolon — so splitting the declaration on `;` first
747 + // truncated the value to `url(&quot` and found no URL at all.
748 + $style = html_entity_decode( $style, ENT_QUOTES );
749 +
750 + if ( ! preg_match( '#background(?:-image)?\s*:\s*((?:[^;\'"]|"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\')+)#i', $style, $decl ) ) {
751 + return '';
752 + }
753 + if ( ! preg_match( '#url\(\s*(["\']?)(.*?)\1\s*\)#is', $decl[1], $m ) ) {
754 + return '';
755 + }
756 + $url = trim( $m[2] );
757 + if ( '' === $url || 0 === stripos( $url, 'data:' ) ) {
758 + return '';
759 + }
760 + return $url;
761 + }
762 +
763 + /**
764 + * Declared pixel area from an inline style, or 0 when it can't be read.
765 + *
766 + * Only px is honoured. A percentage or viewport unit resolves against a
767 + * containing block we cannot see from markup, and guessing one produced the
768 + * wrong winner more often than declining to.
769 + */
770 + private static function style_area( string $style ): int {
771 + $w = self::style_px( $style, 'width' );
772 + $h = self::style_px( $style, 'height' );
773 + if ( $w > 0 && $h > 0 ) {
774 + return $w * $h;
775 + }
776 + if ( $w > 0 ) {
777 + return (int) round( $w * $w * self::ASSUMED_ASPECT_RATIO );
778 + }
779 + return 0;
780 + }
781 +
782 + /** One px-valued CSS length from an inline style, or 0. */
783 + private static function style_px( string $style, string $prop ): int {
784 + if ( preg_match( '#(?:^|;)\s*' . preg_quote( $prop, '#' ) . '\s*:\s*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)px#i', $style, $m ) ) {
785 + return (int) round( (float) $m[1] );
786 + }
787 + return 0;
788 + }
789 +
790 + /**
294 791 * How likely is this <img> to be the LCP element? Higher wins.
295 792 *
296 793 * Rendered area is the best available proxy, and we can only read what the
297 794 * markup declares:
@@ -307,13 +804,13 @@
307 804 *
308 805 * @param string $tag The full <img> tag.
309 806 * @param string $srcset Resolved srcset (may come from data-srcset).
310 807 */
311 - private static function lcp_score( string $tag, string $srcset ): int {
808 + private static function lcp_score( string $tag, string $srcset ): float {
312 809 $w = self::attr( $tag, 'width' );
313 810 $h = self::attr( $tag, 'height' );
314 811 if ( '' !== $w && '' !== $h && is_numeric( $w ) && is_numeric( $h ) ) {
315 - return (int) $w * (int) $h;
812 + return (float) ( (int) $w * (int) $h );
316 813 }
317 814
318 815 $widest = self::widest_srcset_width( $srcset );
319 816 if ( $widest > 0 ) {
@@ -323,15 +820,125 @@
323 820 // 1024w sidebar thumbnail (1 048 576) beat a declared 1200×600
324 821 // hero (720 000) — a regression on exactly the mixed pages that
325 822 // document order used to get right, since the hero usually comes
326 823 // first. Assuming a 16:9 box keeps both sides in the same units.
327 - return (int) round( $widest * $widest * self::ASSUMED_ASPECT_RATIO );
824 + return round( $widest * $widest * self::ASSUMED_ASPECT_RATIO );
328 825 }
329 826
330 - return self::UNKNOWN_SIZE_SCORE;
827 + return (float) self::UNKNOWN_SIZE_SCORE;
331 828 }
332 829
333 830 /**
831 + * Fold the author's own priority signals and document position into an
832 + * area score. (FBS-84576)
833 + *
834 + * Boosts are ADDITIVE, in area units, so they can rescue an image whose
835 + * size the markup doesn't declare: a hero with no width/height and no
836 + * `w`-descriptor srcset scores UNKNOWN_SIZE_SCORE, and multiplying that
837 + * by any factor still loses to a 548×136 logo that declares itself. This
838 + * is exactly the live miss — the real hero carried loading="eager"
839 + * fetchpriority="high" and lost to three dimension-declaring decoys.
840 + *
841 + * - fetchpriority="high" is the strongest signal there is: the author
842 + * (or WP core's own LCP detection) has already named this image the
843 + * hero. Worth a hero-sized area.
844 + * - An EXPLICIT loading="eager" is a weaker but deliberate "load me
845 + * now" (the default is eager, so writing it out is a choice).
846 + *
847 + * Position is a light multiplicative weight — earlier is better, but the
848 + * spread is capped well under 5× so it can only break near-ties, never
849 + * outrank a genuinely larger image further down (the logo-vs-hero case).
850 + *
851 + * @param float $score Base area score from lcp_score() / style_area().
852 + * @param string $tag The candidate's full tag (for the signal attrs).
853 + * @param int $order Document-order index of the candidate.
854 + */
855 + private static function weighted_score( float $score, string $tag, int $order ): float {
856 + if ( 'high' === strtolower( self::attr( $tag, 'fetchpriority' ) ) ) {
857 + $score += self::FETCHPRIORITY_HIGH_BOOST;
858 + }
859 + if ( 'eager' === strtolower( self::attr( $tag, 'loading' ) ) ) {
860 + $score += self::EAGER_BOOST;
861 + }
862 + return $score * self::position_weight( $order );
863 + }
864 +
865 + /**
866 + * Document-position weight: 1.25 for the first image, easing to 1.0 by
867 + * the tenth. The whole spread is 25%, far under the 5× area difference it
868 + * must never override — it exists only to keep the old first-wins
869 + * behaviour for images we can't tell apart.
870 + */
871 + private static function position_weight( int $order ): float {
872 + return 1.0 + 0.25 * max( 0.0, 1.0 - $order / 10 );
873 + }
874 +
875 + /**
876 + * Area-unit boost for fetchpriority="high" — roughly a 940×530 hero, so
877 + * an explicitly-marked image outranks any mid-page decoy even when its
878 + * own size is unreadable, while a genuinely huge unmarked image can still
879 + * beat a marked small one.
880 + */
881 + private const FETCHPRIORITY_HIGH_BOOST = 500000.0;
882 +
883 + /**
884 + * Area-unit boost for an explicit loading="eager" — roughly 420×240,
885 + * enough to break ties in favour of the author's intent without letting
886 + * an eager logo outrank a plain hero.
887 + */
888 + private const EAGER_BOOST = 100000.0;
889 +
890 + /**
891 + * Byte ranges of <footer>/<nav>/<aside> regions. Nesting-aware per tag
892 + * name (a nav inside a nav extends the range); an unclosed open tag
893 + * poisons through to the end of the document, which errs on the side of
894 + * not preloading — the safe direction, since a wrong preload is worse
895 + * than none. (FBS-84576)
896 + *
897 + * @return array<int,array{0:int,1:int}> [start, end] byte offsets.
898 + */
899 + private static function chrome_container_ranges( string $html ): array {
900 + $ranges = array();
901 + foreach ( array( 'footer', 'nav', 'aside' ) as $name ) {
902 + // (?=[\s/>]) rather than \b: a word boundary sits before the `-`
903 + // of a custom element, so `<nav\b` would swallow `<nav-menu>`.
904 + if ( ! preg_match_all( '#<(/?)' . $name . '(?=[\s/>])[^>]*>#i', $html, $m, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE ) ) {
905 + continue;
906 + }
907 + $depth = 0;
908 + $start = 0;
909 + foreach ( $m[0] as $i => $match ) {
910 + $closing = '' !== $m[1][ $i ][0];
911 + if ( ! $closing ) {
912 + if ( 0 === $depth ) {
913 + $start = $match[1];
914 + }
915 + ++$depth;
916 + } elseif ( $depth > 0 ) {
917 + --$depth;
918 + if ( 0 === $depth ) {
919 + $ranges[] = array( $start, $match[1] );
920 + }
921 + }
922 + }
923 + if ( $depth > 0 ) {
924 + $ranges[] = array( $start, strlen( $html ) );
925 + }
926 + }
927 + return $ranges;
928 + }
929 +
930 + /** Does a byte offset fall inside any of the given [start, end] ranges? */
931 + private static function offset_in_ranges( int $offset, array $ranges ): bool {
932 + foreach ( $ranges as $range ) {
933 + if ( $offset > $range[0] && $offset < $range[1] ) {
934 + return true;
935 + }
936 + }
937 + return false;
938 + }
939 +
940 + /**
334 941 * Score for an image whose size we can't read at all.
335 942 *
336 943 * Deliberately non-zero: an unmeasurable image must still beat nothing and
337 944 * still be preloadable on a page where no image declares its size. But it
@@ -492,13 +1099,21 @@
492 1099 */
493 1100 private const NON_HERO_MARKERS = array( 'logo', 'icon', 'avatar', 'gravatar', 'spinner', 'emoji', 'site-icon', 'custom-logo' );
494 1101
495 1102 /**
1103 + * Below this declared area (px²) an image is a badge/thumb/divider, never
1104 + * an LCP hero — 10 000 is a 100×100 square, or a 500×20 strip. Applied
1105 + * only when BOTH dimensions are readable. (FBS-84576)
1106 + */
1107 + private const MIN_LCP_AREA = 10000;
1108 +
1109 + /**
496 1110 * Is this <img> too small / too chrome-like to be the LCP hero? True when
497 1111 * either (a) it carries a logo/icon/avatar marker, (b) an explicit
498 - * `data-no-lcp` opt-out, or (c) BOTH width and height are present and both
499 - * are ≤ the threshold. Missing dimensions are NOT guessed — an image whose
500 - * size we can't read still competes. (FBS-83553 H1 "logo before hero".)
1112 + * `data-no-lcp` opt-out, or (c) BOTH width and height are present and
1113 + * both are ≤ the dimension threshold, or their area is under
1114 + * MIN_LCP_AREA. Missing dimensions are NOT guessed — an image whose size
1115 + * we can't read still competes. (FBS-83553 H1 "logo before hero".)
501 1116 */
502 1117 private static function looks_too_small( string $tag ): bool {
503 1118 if ( false !== stripos( $tag, 'data-no-lcp' ) ) {
504 1119 return true;
@@ -514,8 +1129,11 @@
514 1129 $w = self::attr( $tag, 'width' );
515 1130 $h = self::attr( $tag, 'height' );
516 1131 if ( '' === $w || '' === $h || ! is_numeric( $w ) || ! is_numeric( $h ) ) {
517 1132 return false; // unknown size — don't guess; let it compete.
1133 + }
1134 + if ( (int) $w * (int) $h < self::MIN_LCP_AREA ) {
1135 + return true;
518 1136 }
519 1137 return (int) $w <= self::MIN_LCP_DIMENSION && (int) $h <= self::MIN_LCP_DIMENSION;
520 1138 }
521 1139