Lightboxes are so slow

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I know it’s already been discussed here so many times, but it’s just can’t be acceptable.
Opening lightboxes on mobile is just too slow.
It’s doesn’t make sense that you have to wait more than a second for it to pop up (on some of the most advanced cellphones).
On iPhones, it’s relatively OK (far from being perfect though). but on Android it’s just doesn’t fit to the current decade standards.
To make it clear - I’m talking about triggered lightboxes (so the delay settings on the editor is irrelevant). + It’s much more noticeable, if you pass some data (even a small object) to it.

Whenever it’s possible, I use collapsed-expanded boxes instead, but when it’s not, I’m helpless.

Any idea/workaround/advice will be welcomed.
Thanks,
J.D.

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AFAIK there is no workaround. I’ve posted a feature request: https://www.wix.com/corvid/forum/community-feature-request/speed-up-lightbox-display

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Even after implementing wix code and even a setTimout function for the lightbox, it still takes between 5 and 7 seconds to load. Please Wix, help us out on this one.

import wixWindow from 'wix-window';

export function button6_onClick(event) {
setTimeout(() => {
wixWindow.openLightbox("Cathedral");
}, 1000);
}
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Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do since it’s caused by the slow processing power of WIX servers, actually, the whole site is so much slower compared to websites hosted on other services, like Cloudflare or GoDaddy.