Title: Async/non-blocking loading
Last modified: May 6, 2021

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# Async/non-blocking loading

 *  [strarsis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strarsis/)
 * (@strarsis)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/async-non-blocking-loading/)
 * Google PageSpeed Insights and similar tools complain about the Google Maps API
   initialization blocking the main thread for a significant amount of time.
    One
   way to mitigate this would be initializing the maps only when scrolled into view.
   This is a big issue when the Google Maps block is used in the footer of a site
   as all sites are impacted then.
 * This would also make this plugin stand out more as this is often overlooked and
   can hurt performance/SEO a lot.

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## Tags

 * [api](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/api/)
 * [async](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/async/)
 * [init](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/init/)
 * [load](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/load/)
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 * Last activity: [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/async-non-blocking-loading/)
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