Category banner image slow to load

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The discussion is about a category banner image taking 3 seconds to load. NoamH initially used a CSS code with the image URL, resulting in the slow load time. Lilly suggested loading the image as an asset by uploading it to a theme or theme component and using a variable. NoamH shared their current code, which includes the image URL. awesomerobot advised that there’s nothing inherent in adding a background image that should cause slowness and suggested optimizing the image file size, recommending tools like ImageOptim or TinyPNG.

1

I used this CSS but the images take 3 seconds to upload (the image size is 240k)
Any suggestions?

2

Ho Noam, sorry for the late reply, I’m reviewing the main category-banners topic and there are some unanswered questions I’m moving to dedicated topics :slight_smile:

Did you figure out the issue in the end?

3

Nop, the first upload still taken 3 sec

4

hmmm :thinking:

have you tried loading the image as an asset by uploading to a theme (or theme component) and using a variable like so?

.category-title-header {
  &.category-banner-example-category {
        background: url($example);
  }
}
5

Yep, this is the code from our side:

.category-title-header.category-banner-show-and-tell {background-size: cover !important; background: url(https://cdck-file-uploads-europe1.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/business20/uploads/algosec/original/1X/b94301fb225b079d905143074e33c5140e151f19.png); }

6

There’s nothing inherent to adding a background image like this that should make it slow, so it’s hard to say. Are other images loading slowly at all?

The image could be optimized a little more to reduce the file size, it doesn’t seem to have any transparency, so a JPG could be smaller than a PNG. You can also further optimize it using a tool like ImageOptim (Mac) or a web-based tool like TinyPNG.