Could my Elfsight widget be slowing down my site?

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Hi there, @Julie_Follansbee :waving_hand:

I deeply apologize for this inconvenience!

You’re right, there were some issues with the widget’s optimization, but our devs fixed them and now it’s working much better.

Please check your website and let me know if it’s fine now :slightly_smiling_face:

Also, we’ve noticed some of the images are currently over 1MB, which also affects the loading speed:

To help the widget load even faster, we recommend using these tools to reduce the image size:

Once you’ve compressed and re-uploaded the images, you should see an improvement :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thank you!

Where do I find this chart on my elfsight

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To check the size of the images in your widget, you should follow these steps:

  1. Right click the widget and choose “Inspect”:


  1. Open the Network tab in the Dev Tools, then click on the Reload button (press for a couple of seconds) and select Empty Cache and Hard Reload:

After that, you’ll see the uploaded images and their size :slightly_smiling_face: