# How to disable "preloader-image" on Discourse instance? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-preloader-image-on-discourse-instance/402456 **Category:** Support **Tags:** splash **Created:** [May 8, 2026, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-preloader-image-on-discourse-instance/402456 "2026-05-08T06:21:04Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![darkpixlz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/darkpixlz/32/549896_2.png) [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz) #### Post date: [May 8, 2026, 7:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-preloader-image-on-discourse-instance/402456/2 "2026-05-08T07:31:58Z")
> [@GaurangBlaze](#): > > However, I noticed that it has also started showing the blue dots splash screen on page load: Wow. This was added in 2022, nearly 4 years ago now. You should really be better about updating your site, generally healthy sites are updated every 2-3 weeks… > [@Introducing Discourse Splash - A visual preloader displayed while site assets load](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-discourse-splash-a-visual-preloader-displayed-while-site-assets-load/232003): > > Discourse is a single-page Javascript application. This means that navigation within the app is blazingly fast. The compromise with modern web applications is that they must be loaded and parsed on the initial page view. While we’ve been doing a lot of work over the years to optimize how we serve site assets, this can sometimes be a little bit slow based on device/network conditions. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been actively working and testing potential improvements for the initial wait th… Regardless, no, it cannot be disabled. However, you can customize it with the setting you mentioned. I suppose you can use an empty SVG but the dots will appear anyways unless the SVG is animated. I don’t see why you would want to hide them anyways, they’re harmless and go away in less than half of a second for most people. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-preloader-image-on-discourse-instance/402456)._