I appreciate all of the help and brainstorming.
Perhaps instead of loading a site, maybe I should just create a a “Lite” page, then use a Cadence pop up for instance, to announce to my visitors that the “Lite” page is currently active, with a link to take you there.
This way I am only changing and loading a single page, the rest of the site remains intact.
Concerning iframes I’d suggest avoiding them. This really lists the reasons why:
Also take into account you can’t set X-Frame-Options to the iframe itself. You’re left at the mercy of the server/page loaded through the iframe for that, which might cause issues too.
Quite an old article you’re quoting there Brecht. Still true, though points mentioned have less of an impact then back in 2014. I never said it an iframe was optimal, but quite one of the cheaper and simpler solutions.
X-Frame-Options must indeed be set, but that’s easily done with a line added to .htaccess Header append X-Frame-Options: "SAMEORIGIN"
If it’s the images that are the bulk of the workload, perhaps a tool like Robolly is an idea? Then you’d have a link to this service that then generates the images based on your input, what can be via a CSV file. (On stacksocial there’s a LTD for it).