Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for progressively deploying a large size wallpaper of a web page, without compromising on image quality, perceived load time or user experience. The present disclosure involves embodiments for reducing the size of background image of a web page for initial deployment of the page. This reduced size background image maintains its high quality features; however, there is a reduction in detail resulting in a “blurred” image. Therefore, the deployed page does not reduce page performance upon attempting to download large background images. Upon serving the web page with the compressed image, higher detail versions of the compressed background image are progressively downloaded until the original high quality image is displayed.