To clarify my question: I’ve got a set group of layouts that I want to be able to “toggle” through on different areas of my site, without having to have individual saved assets for each style.
If I throw all those into a multi state box and duplicate it throughout the site, do the “states” that are not currently shown get loaded as well? Would that slow down my site?
this could possibly cause “lazy load” I think
lazy load means delaying the loading of website content or media which is outside of the user’s initial view
along with this you can try to run the test with these elements duplicated and without by using Google PageSpeed Insights
I don’t think this should slow down your site. A ‘state’ in a multi-state box which is not shown is actually ‘removed’ from the DOM until this specific state is displayed again.