iframe speed

**TXAlba** · 17 May 2015, 12:25 PM

are there amendments to the standards iframe code generated with the widget that will allow the iframe to load faster on the webpage?

I use wordpress for blogs and on accessing the websites Blog page where there is an iframe generated with the web designer widget, there is a lag which is annoying. it does make some kind of sense that there will be lag when another website/page is loaded, after all your website must load before it sees there is an instruction to load another site in an iframe.

But can the load time be increased in some way.

Not great with code and hoping there is an easy solution ............ thanks in advance for any help

Current code:
<iframe src="http://www.domainname/blog/" onload=”pageloadingtime();” width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" name="xara_iframe" ><p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p></iframe>

**pauland** · 17 May 2015, 12:51 PM

I think it is what it is and it will take as long as it takes. Nothing can speed up the load time of the embedded wordpress site. It should load as fast as the wordpress server will create it.

[ There are reasons why pages with iFrames load slower - Google "slow iframe" and there are some suggestions to improve the user experience, but it's not really down to Xara or a simple change to Markup ]

**Acorn** · 17 May 2015, 03:22 PM

What might work is setting the iframe to have a transparency:

<iframe class="iframePlaceholder " src="https://duckduckgo.com/"width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" name="xara_iframe" allowtransparency="true" ><p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p></iframe>

Additionally, adding a background to the iframe HTML code (head):

Code:

 <style>
.iframePlaceholder {
  background: url("index_htm_files/Chrysanthemum.jpg") center center no-repeat;
 }
</style>

You can add an image to the background that is the startup view or anything you like.

You will have to check the coding above is right - search for iframe transparency and iframe background,; there are usually on-line examples.

Acorn

**pauland** · 17 May 2015, 03:24 PM

Does that make it load faster?

**Acorn** · 17 May 2015, 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by pauland

Does that make it load faster?

Sorry, i should have mentioned that it doesn't load faster but through a trompe l'oeil effect, an image in situ looks as if something has happened, so subjectively it seems faster.

Acorn

**TXAlba** · 17 May 2015, 05:33 PM

Thanks guys...... i like the idea of a background image that just says

"... loading"

thanks for info

, that's the solution ill use.

**steve.ledger** · 17 May 2015, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by Acorn

What might work is setting the iframe to have a transparency

This is possible only if you also have access to edit the iframe source content which needs some css added to the <head>

See ► http://board.xara-users.info/viewtop...&t=909&start=0

**Acorn** · 18 May 2015, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by steve.ledger

This is possible only if you also have access to edit the iframe source content which needs some css added to the <head>

See ► http://board.xara-users.info/viewtop...&t=909&start=0

Thank you for the detail and clarification,
Acorn