We use the PushBuilder object to send an image to the client before it is requested by the img src tag. In other words, the browser doesn't need to do another request (what it usually does with img src) to have an image available for rendering.

It might seem as if it doesn't make too much difference for a single image, but it would with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of images. There's less traffic for your client and from your server. That's better performance for all!