Title: Request: Cursor Performance Improvement
Last modified: January 29, 2019

---

# Request: Cursor Performance Improvement

 *  Resolved [Jessie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jproffitt71/)
 * (@jproffitt71)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-cursor-performance-improvement/)
 * I really like this plugin, the only issue is that right now selecting the crop
   focal point is slow and janky – not because of the focal point cursor itself –
   but because of how it handles async cropping. It crops immediately on every change
   to the focal point cursor, and it seems when it finishes a request to crop, it
   re-renders the focal point cursor based on where it was when it sent that request.
   This leads to the cursor frequently jumping around, and sometimes even disappearing.
 * It would be nice if instead of cropping immediately and updating the cursor, 
   it only cropped once you closed the media window, or at least on a debounce of
   ~1s that doesn’t update the cursor.
 * I imagine this issue doesn’t crop up (ha) when WP is natively generating the 
   images because that’s fast enough, but in my case I use WP Smush so every crop
   has to make a request to a third party server which introduces a minimum latency
   of ~2s.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

 *  Plugin Author [Bytes.co](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlingtonbytes/)
 * (@burlingtonbytes)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-cursor-performance-improvement/#post-11164764)
 * Hi JProffitt71,
 * Give a shot to the new version we just released. We’ve been working on a complete
   rewrite of that admin interface for a while, to address a few different weird
   edge cases like this. You should now be able to position and reposition the cursor
   as needed, without worrying about lag or unexpected jumpiness.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘Request: Cursor Performance Improvement’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-smartcrop/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1371575)
 * [WP SmartCrop](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smartcrop/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smartcrop/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-smartcrop/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-smartcrop/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-smartcrop/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-smartcrop/reviews/)

## Tags

 * [performance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/performance/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Bytes.co](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burlingtonbytes/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-cursor-performance-improvement/#post-11164764)
 * Status: resolved