Everything above 153x153 pixels is too small (!) to count as LQIP (lighthouse).
The "normal" way would be to use a 0.05+ bpp WEBP-image as LQIP,
which has ~600 bytes, but looks MUCH better and is widely supported:
https://show.quicky.club/results/cb/1f/a5/ddbacee070083ac5f7...
$ echo "(8*147)/(154*154)" | bc -l .04958677685950413223