row background slideshow / slight delay before showing first slide

Beaver Builder
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On our client site:
http://www.austincollege.edu/
The Home page / top section is using a row background set to slideshow (interval is set to 3600 sec, random, so user sees a different bg on each page load).
When first visiting the page, you see the page background for 1 sec, before the random background image. This happens even when you reload the page. Client wants to know how we can reduce the time for the ‘slideshow’ to begin, and not see that gray page bg.

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Hello Thrive,

There is no way for us to reduce the time through a setting. It all depends on how fast the image loads. What you can do is to optimize the images so they load faster since we really can’t reduce the image dimensions. I wish I had a better answer for you.

Ben

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Ben - Thanks!
It just seems weird b/c we are using a caching plugin (W3 cache) but it doesn’t seem to be affecting this javascript (?) function. I.e. the images are loading each time on page load, rather than using the site cache (or even browser cache) to pull the images immediately…

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Hey Peter,

The W3 total cache plugin doesn’t actually cache images, they will still be loaded from the same location, unless they are cached by the browser. The slideshow also isn’t doing anything special other than creating img tags with JavaScript. So, I’m not sure there is anything we can do here. How can you be sure the images aren’t being loaded via the browser’s cache?

Thanks,
Justin