Title: Preload?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Preload?

 *  Resolved [Seph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seph/)
 * (@seph)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-2/)
 * Hey there,
 * I noticed that my page with the added gif is loading very slow. There seems to
   be some preloading going on? I thought that the reason you want such a player
   is that you don’t want gifs to load on preload. Or am I wrong?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-gif-player/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-gif-player/)

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 *  [cudaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cudaja/)
 * (@cudaja)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-2/#post-6162771)
 * Hi Seph,
 * the gif player does not do any preload, the slowdown of your site must be caused
   by something else. Have a look in the chrome network panel to investigate the
   cause, there you can also so what is loaded when.
 *  [cudaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cudaja/)
 * (@cudaja)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-2/#post-6162774)
 * …though, if you have many gifs ob one page, all gif previews must load before
   you will be able to play the first gif.
    When you load a page, a spinner shows
   on your first gif preview picture (instead of the gif-button), the initial spinner
   will show until all content of your page is loaded (I’m not sure about ads, though)
   once everything is loaded, the “gif” buttons appears and you are able to start(
   and load) the gifs. We chose this solution for a better overall performance on
   mobile devices.
 *  Thread Starter [Seph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seph/)
 * (@seph)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-2/#post-6162775)
 * Ah, what is what the spinner does. I thought it does preload. Anyway, what is
   the best way to keep the preload images small?
 *  Thread Starter [Seph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seph/)
 * (@seph)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-2/#post-6162822)
 * Hmm…would where be a way to speed up the loading, besides optimizing the server?
   I noticed that even a 3MB gif takes like a minute to load, which is probably 
   too slow for most used cases.
 *  [cudaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cudaja/)
 * (@cudaja)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-2/#post-6162853)
 * The preload pictures are automatically generated by the plugin, their size shouldn’t
   be an issue.
    For the size of your gifs – not much one can do about it. Gifs 
   are large. With some optimization of your site you can significantly speed up
   the overall page load time, the instructions on how to accomplish that would 
   be outside the support scope on wp gif player.
 *  Thread Starter [Seph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seph/)
 * (@seph)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-2/#post-6162948)
 * Would it be possible to autoplay on desktop but to show a play button for mobile
   like mic.com does it?
 *  [cudaja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cudaja/)
 * (@cudaja)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-2/#post-6162958)
 * That would be a great feature.
    We will put this in consideration for future 
   updates.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preload-2/#post-6162958)
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