# Low-bandwidth "lite" version **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [August 24, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-bandwidth-lite-version/32448 "2015-08-24T00:52:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5

**Author:** ![mr8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@mr8](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mr8)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-bandwidth-lite-version/32448/5 "2015-08-26T18:47:27Z")

> [@ColdSun](#): > > Have you had them do traceroutes The majority of my user base isn’t very tech savvy so I don’t think they’d be able to… I guess we could disable the avatars and some extras on the mobile version, but would hate to remove those features for the users on modern mobile devices with fast connections. > [@codinghorror](#): > > The only downside is if you have a lot of drive by one-and-done users, they incur the full app load but do not reap any of the subsequent benefits when clicking or tapping around in the loaded app. I think this is probably the main problem we have. They try to load the site on an already slow public wifi and figure that something must be wrong with our site… > [@codinghorror](#): > > We are discussing having a super light weight 1996 era read-only HTML crawler view available to massively obsolete 2011 and earlier devices, but it is unlikely your users will have a device that old. One of our users did say they were stuck on an \< 2G connection for a couple of days and had to give up on the site, so this could be an option for those unfortunate times. > [@sam](#): > > Curious about 2 data points here: > > What Phones are they using? > How often are you deploying? I think the ones that have been vocal about the slowness are on some older and/or low-end android devices. We’re updating the site about once or twice every two weeks. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-bandwidth-lite-version/32448)._