Hi Acorn,
Examples / page load speed:
When using the simple javascript integration there is a tiny delay vs if you cache it yourself (many ways to do this). But if your site itself loads quickly the delay is almost unnoticeable:
You can see a fully clean example here:
https://dropindemo.com
or an client example here:
https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/news.html
Both load very quickly. However, if you want faster loading you can use our JSON api.
Pricing:
Our pricing is per site. It's about 20% cheaper on the annual plan. We've found the current pricing is the most sustainable for us to maintain a great product with a small bootstrapped team. Also we've found that if a customer is not going to add $19 / month to their bottom line from their content marketing plan they don't end up actually continuing with it anyway.
CSS:
Drop in blog offers a number of "Templates" for the output of the blog section (which fits within your existing page layout). The grid being the most popular. When you choose one of these templates css is sent to your page, however it will still inherit your fonts and some of your colors.
The templates look pretty great out of the box on most sites. However, if you're not happy you can tweak till your heart's content as every single element has a unique class or id on it. So you can easily target any element you'd like to adjust.
Or, if you want full control you can just choose the "Raw" template that only outputs html elements with classes and ids on them but no style. Then you can make it look exactly how you want.
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