Handle image loading errors gracefully
SkillMediaLets your agent review image assets for loading errors, sizes, and loading strategy.
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Then ask your AI: use the Handle image loading errors gracefully skill
About this capability
Use when reviewing image assets, markup, and CDN or build transforms related to Handle image loading errors gracefully. Check encoded size, rendered size, loading strategy, and above-the-fold impact together.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thedaviddias/front-end-checklist in skills/error-images/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Broken image icons look unprofessional and confuse users—graceful fallbacks maintain visual consistency and user trust when images fail to load.
Quick Reference
- Use onerror to replace broken images with fallbacks
- Provide meaningful placeholder content, not broken image icons
- Consider skeleton loaders while images load
- Log image errors for monitoring and debugging
Check
Check if the website handles broken images gracefully with fallback images or error states.
Fix
Implement fallback images or placeholder content for broken image scenarios.
Explain
Explain how proper error handling for images improves user experience.
Code Review
Review image assets, markup, and delivery configuration related to Handle image loading errors gracefully. Flag exact files or components where format choice, sizing, or loading behavior violates the rule, and describe how to confirm the fix in DevTools.
For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see references/rule.md.
Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/images/error-images
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 74k
- Forks
- 7k
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
error-images- Source
- github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist