The description says "Normally externally loaded content like website widgets can slow down the loading of your website or making it crash if the page from where the content is loaded fails."

How can this module prevent the situation, If the external Iframe fails to load? Or it caches the extrenal content and if it is not available shows cached content?

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javi-er commented

When you place external content in your site, the completion of your site loading and rendering will depend on the external content servers. If the external content server is down, the loading of your website can be slowed down or even your website could crash as well.

iframes will help to prevent timeout or crashes in your site because the content inside an iframe is treated as a separate page by the browser, this means that each iframe has independent loading so if the external site from where you are getting the content is down your site will not hang waiting for the external content to load.

In the case that the external site is down, you'll see an empty box in the place where this content should be, this module doesn't caches content to be displayed when the external content fails (although is not a bad idea :-)

Hopes this helps to clarify it for you.
thanks,
Javier

javi-er’s picture

javi-er commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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BenK commented

Keeping track of this