we use cloudflare.
@EducatorWaji I don’t get it! the site doesn’t load after 23 min. plus the site size is more or less the same (only 500kb different) with or without the images. as this reply show.
i’m more or less confused now! 
after disabling topic preview only avatars + js files remains. but which js file? no other js is active on homepage (rather than ga).