2 Instagram feeds on the same page–how many total remote requests from IG?

  • Resolved cag8f

    (@cag8f)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    In my main page content, I have used your plugin to display the 20 latest images from my Instagram feed (using the ‘masonry’ layout). If I also use your plugin to display the 8 latest images, from the same Instagram feed, in my footer (using the ‘square’ layout), will the plugin make 8 additional requests from Instagram? Or would the plugin be smart enough to know that it has already fetched those 8 images, and can conserve bandwidth by not re-fetching them.

    Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    Photonic makes one request per shortcode for Instagram. So if you have two instances of the shortcode there will be two requests to Instagram – it doesn’t matter how many images are in each.

    If the images have the same URL, the caching really comes down to the exchange between the end-user’s browser and the Instagram CDN. Photonic is not caching anything internally (or on your site), rather it is acting as a gateway to Instagram on your site. None of the bandwidth consumption is between your site and Instagram – it all happens between the person browsing through your site and Instagram.

    Thread Starter cag8f

    (@cag8f)

    OK, understood on all. Thanks for the explanation. We can consider this resolved.

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