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§ / Shopify · Error fixes · Fix 08

Shopify product image
not loading.

Main image or thumbnails show a blank space, a broken icon, or load indefinitely. Five ranked causes covering lazy-loading conflicts, missing aspect ratios, and format errors.

Most likely causes, ranked

  1. 01
    Lazy-loading conflict.

    Native browser lazy loading conflicting with an app's JS lazy loader.

  2. 02
    Missing aspect ratio CSS.

    Image has height 0 until loaded, causing layout shifts or invisible images.

  3. 03
    Broken format or CDN error.

    File extension mismatch or Shopify CDN caching issue.

  4. 04
    JavaScript error blocking gallery init.

    A JS error elsewhere on the page stops the image slider script from running.

  5. 05
    WebP fallback failure.

    Older browsers failing to load WebP images if the theme doesn't provide fallbacks.