# Obvious discovery I made about page loading speed

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/obvious-discovery-i-made-about-page-loading-speed/4738>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [December 30, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/obvious-discovery-i-made-about-page-loading-speed/4738 "2015-12-30T16:20:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![inthezone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@inthezone](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/inthezone)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/obvious-discovery-i-made-about-page-loading-speed/4738/1 "2015-12-30T16:20:00Z")

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Okay everyone, I may be the only one who was doing this wrong, and if I am, silly me but… I just figured out that a web page is downloaded from the server starting at the top and going to the bottom. Kind of obvious and intuitive correct? The issue is that I had a bunch of light boxes and other stuff packed at the top of my RW project. As such, it would load those pieces first, which took a lot of time, thus adding more time to render the stuff that I wanted to show right away. None of those pieces will be needed until someone clicks for them, long after the full page has loaded. Simple rule of thumb - put all the immediately unnecessary stuff at the bottom, your pages will render much faster on the screen! To all your professional coders - am I correct about this? Any other thoughts or tricks to speed things up would be truly appreciated…

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**Author:** ![willwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bc8723/32.png) [@willwood](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/willwood)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/obvious-discovery-i-made-about-page-loading-speed/4738/2 "2015-12-30T17:49:15Z")

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This is what’s referred to as “render blocking scripts” when you do a speed test.

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**Author:** ![inthezone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@inthezone](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/inthezone)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/obvious-discovery-i-made-about-page-loading-speed/4738/3 "2015-12-30T19:08:11Z")

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I never knew there would be technical term for not being smart about basic design. Thanks for the new jargon! 🙂