How to make your Vaults.lol page load faster

Vaults recommends enabling Entrance Splash Screen and keeping your media files small. Compress images before adding them, as recommended in the dashboard, and reduce large GIFs, video backgrounds and audio files too.

Files above 10 MB can take longer to download, especially on mobile data or a slow connection. Treat 10 MB as a practical guideline, not a hard limit or a guarantee that smaller files load instantly.

Open Customize, choose General and expand Entrance Splash Screen (Recommended) at the top, above Identity. Turn on Enable splash screen and write your entrance text, for example: Welcome to my page, click to enter! Entrance Splash Screen was recently made free for every account, so Lifetime or Supporter is no longer required.

The splash gives visitors an introduction while your page elements and media load behind the scenes. Clicking to enter also works best for music autoplay because browsers usually require an interaction before allowing sound. A splash does not shrink files or guarantee that every file has finished loading when a visitor clicks.

New: you can now add a Countdown to Enter below the entrance text. Set a number of seconds (up to 60) and a countdown shows under your text in the same font. Visitors can only click to enter once it reaches 0, which gives heavy media more time to load and gives people time to read a longer message.

New accounts start with the splash enabled and the example text saved. Existing accounts keep their previous settings, so you can enable it yourself if it is off.

An image can be much larger than it needs to be, even when it looks small on your page. Resize it to suit where it is displayed and compress it before using it. For still images, WebP or AVIF can reduce file size, depending on the original.

Animated GIFs can be particularly large. Shorten the animation, lower its resolution or reduce its frame rate where appropriate. For a background, an efficiently encoded video may be smaller than a long GIF. Keep a copy of your original and check the compressed version for visible quality loss.

A long, high-resolution video background can take longer to start than a short compressed loop. Trim unused footage and use a resolution and bitrate appropriate for a profile background rather than the largest export available.

Audio file size matters too. Compress an oversized track and avoid unnecessarily large lossless files when a smaller version sounds good. If your page uses a video, GIF, several images and music, their combined download size matters, not just each file individually.

Most profile media is embedded from the URL you provide. The file host, the visitor's connection and the device also affect loading. Use a reliable host and a direct file URL that plays or displays without requiring a sign-in.

After replacing a file with a compressed version, update its URL in Customize. If it still loads slowly, check the media URL directly and compare its size with the original. Contact Vaults support if the page itself fails to open rather than only taking time to load media.