# Mobile option to not load user avatars (and other potential bandwidth saving features) **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [21.Июль.2014 02:14:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-option-to-not-load-user-avatars-and-other-potential-bandwidth-saving-features/17792 "2014-07-21T02:14:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![TheLoneCuber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thelonecuber/32/114988_2.png) [@TheLoneCuber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TheLoneCuber)\ **Post date:** [27.Сентябрь.2014 05:26:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-option-to-not-load-user-avatars-and-other-potential-bandwidth-saving-features/17792/5 "2014-09-27T05:26:20Z")
> Avatars are probably the least of the problems While I like to think that an avatar-free Discourse would be significantly faster, it seems that even when ~60 avatars are being served that it’s only around a [0.6 second problem](http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140927_75_70N/) ([meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) testing via [webpagetest.org](http://webpagetest.org)). Though I am surprised to see how long [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) takes to load given that it’s Fastly powered? A ~6 second load time wasn’t what I was expecting. I’ve also just set-up my first Discourse site using a Digital Ocean droplet and was hoping for better performance results. Regarding avatars @sam, could the the default Letter Avatars (when a user has no avatar image set) be a HTML+CSS version and not an image, saving a bunch of HTTP requests? I know the [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) has a high ratio of avatared users, but for many forums with non-tech people, they have a much higher % of non-avatar users. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mobile-option-to-not-load-user-avatars-and-other-potential-bandwidth-saving-features/17792)._