Lazy Loading Connections content and UI elements

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  • 11/07/2017 at 11:53 am #440383
    Andrey Norin
    Participant

    Hi Steven,

    Is there a way to lazy load the Connections UI and content?

    I want to have the users go directly to the page that loads Connections entries. The problem is that doing so results in an overall long page load time. I do display a “page loading” spinner to the users while they wait, but then the entire site renders at once.

    It would be much better if the theme loaded first and I was just displaying a spinner until Connections UI and entries were ready to come up. Is there a way to do something like that?

    Thanks!

    11/07/2017 at 12:21 pm #440385
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Andrey

    I visited the page many times in Chrome and according to the browser network log the page loads in just over 2 seconds (2.2s avg). If anything, the animation adds a fraction of a second. That’s pretty Good for a WP site. Not sure what the issue is? Is it that the directory page takes about 200ms longer to load??? If so, I suggest WP Rocket or perhaps reducing the numbers of entries per page to 10 instead of 20.

    Hope that helps!

    11/07/2017 at 12:27 pm #440391
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ Andrey

    Oh, Should have added, sorry, no, there is not a way to lazy load the directory content. That would actually increase the server load as WP woulds have to loaded twice for each time the page was called. Once for the initial pages load and a second to fetch the directory contents to lazy load it. The net result would be the initial page load would be about 200ms faster but overall time would be roughly 2secs longer to fetch the directory content. Lazy loading is excellent for loading static content like images but not for dynamic content from WP.

    Hope that helps!

    11/08/2017 at 12:57 pm #440547
    Andrey Norin
    Participant

    Yes, that helps. Thanks Steven

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