Site Preview Error Issue

Elements
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I’m having a page preview issue for the website I’m developing:

First of all, it’s just on one page out of all of them, and it’s a page that is very resource heavy. I have another page that’s also resource heavy but slightly less, and it just takes a minute before it actually renders it. So basically, as it stands, it forces me to publish the site in order to actually preview that page. It’s consistent. I’ve done restarting. I’ve saved and quit Elements, reopened it, all the standard things one would think, but it keeps repeating.

I don’t know what the underlying technologies that are being used are for Elements when it comes to generating a local web server and how it’s going about then rendering all the site code. The issue of the page being really resource intensive is pretty much dealt with on the live site by just depending on lazy loading. So as long as somebody isn’t hyper-scrolling past the top of the page, then everything just loads as it comes closer to the viewport and it all looks fine.

So I can see where issues could creep up technologically, but you guys of course know more about how the backend works, how the web server works, etc., than I do. And of course, this could be something that you’re already addressing in the newer version that is being worked on. For all I know, there is a more robust rendering engine being built into Elements that will eliminate issues like this. But currently, it’s a bit of a pain.

For me, at this point, it’s not a deal breaker because the site has not yet been advertised publicly. But once it is, this is a bit of an issue. Anyway, curious to know what you think.

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Sorry to hear you’re having issues. Can you share the project with us via Elements Cloud so we can take a look for you?

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I mean, ultimately, I’m not really having “issues”. There’s nothing exceptional or strange about this page. What I’m trying to do is convey to you information about what looks like to be a limitation of whatever you’re using to render the site. And if not that alone, what you’re using to serve it.

It’s not hard to understand how it could be happening, considering how data heavy this page is. I’m trying to pass information on to you so maybe you can consider making the internal rendering engine more robust, or whatever it is you have that flattens out the site to then be sent through the web server you’re generating into the local browser, then not tend to have this kind of an issue if somebody has an extraordinarily data heavy web page.

Otherwise, no. Sharing this as a project isn’t an option. It’s literally full of all of my life’s work. And I’m a little bit protective of that, as I would think you would understand. I can share the link with you to that page, and you can see how big the page is. I don’t assume that would not help in understanding what it is that I’m trying to illustrate.

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