Many thanks for your reply

for the time being I have enabled the loader.

I have tried option 2. With this CSS added, all the images and text load up at the same time making the slider look a mess. Is there anything else that can be done
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I love the template, and it works well with our site by unfortunately its taking far to long for the page to fully load.
Please see link for the website speed test. Can you look into “get V2” for us and see why its taking almost 6 seconds to load?