# How to add a loading page, some like Gmail?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-a-loading-page-some-like-gmail/61067
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [April 16, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-a-loading-page-some-like-gmail/61067 "2017-04-16T18:51:55Z")
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### Author: ![kudouyuzi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kudouyuzi/32/68780_2.png) [@kudouyuzi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kudouyuzi)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-a-loading-page-some-like-gmail/61067/8 "2017-04-16T21:20:32Z")

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My server is KVM vps, RAM 4gb free 1.3gb, BW is 100mbpe

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/home-index-taking-to-long-to-load/20026](https://meta.discourse.org/t/home-index-taking-to-long-to-load/20026)

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-site-page-load-slow-i-have-no-idea/20947/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-site-page-load-slow-i-have-no-idea/20947/)

> [@The initial page load](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-initial-page-load/17323/):
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> When you go to a Discourse site for the first time, it can sometimes take about 1 - 3 seconds before the page shows anything but a white background. Call me impatient, but I don’t like that. I like my sites to load almost instantly, and Discourse sure doesn’t load very fast the first time on every Discourse forum I’ve visited. However, when it’s loaded, browsing the forum is pretty quick, so no complaints there. The reason it bothers me so much is because that initial page load is very importan…

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-curious-why-emberjs-and-handlebars-libs-are-used-what-do-they-do-so-special-behind-the-scenes/18466/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/just-curious-why-emberjs-and-handlebars-libs-are-used-what-do-they-do-so-special-behind-the-scenes/18466/)

> [@Loading spinner spinning on a blank page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/loading-spinner-spinning-on-a-blank-page/35668/):
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> Hi Guys I’m from China and found Discourse awesome. A huge thank to the community. Just a quick one,when I click on a topic there’s always a loading spinner spinning on a blank page prior to the content of the topic being rendered. Is it possible to set up Discourse to display the loading spinner on the current page which is a list of topics, in this case, rather than a blank page?There are 2 reasons that I’m raising this, firstly,for instance, it takes around 1 second to load the content of a…

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