"The resource was preloaded using link preload but not used" error codes

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Hey folks, hope everyone is well.

We’re getting a couple errors when we inspect the elements on our website and I can’t for the life of me figure out where they are coming from :disappointed_face:

“The resource https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0519/8462/9957/t/24/assets/steinmart.min.css?v=816968380355373711 was preloaded using link preload but not used within a few seconds from the window’s load event. Please make sure it has an appropriate as value and it is preloaded intentionally.”

“The resource https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0519/8462/9957/t/24/assets/paywhirl-styles.scss.css?v=12367821940235735287 was preloaded using link preload but not used within a few seconds from the window’s load event. Please make sure it has an appropriate as value and it is preloaded intentionally.”

Going into our Theme.Liquid file (We’re using the warehouse theme by maestroo), the only link that is being pre-loaded is the following:

I cannot find any other reference to preloaded links in our code.

If anyone could assist I’d really appreciate it!

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Hi,

Those css files are being loaded dynamically by apps that you have installed on your shopify store.

For example this https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0519/8462/9957/t/24/assets/paywhirl-styles.scss.css is being loaded by the paywhirl app

Also these are not errors, just warnings.

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This confuses me, because we do not have apps installed by the names of Paywhirl or Steinmart?

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Hey,

I’ve noticed the same issue. It seems to be happening on a lot of random stores. I’ve made a webpagetest of couple of them. Notice the weirdness of first ~4 requests.

https://webpagetest.org/result/210720_AiDcM2_dca891856845d09f7710c1eb59121bf3/1/details/#waterfall_view_step1
https://webpagetest.org/result/210720_AiDcBJ_5b2d301991b668b8e946781d8aa50174/1/details/#waterfall_view_step1
https://webpagetest.org/result/210720_AiDcF3_84744a52a0b882b94219952380a5d171/1/details/#waterfall_view_step1
https://webpagetest.org/result/210720_BiDcME_792ac38efa86aa472026c1c6b6ada07c/1/details/#waterfall_view_step1
https://webpagetest.org/result/210720_BiDcYN_4c38e5e42635c23792ef47dfd471aee9/1/details/#waterfall_view_step1

I’ve compared the CDN links to https://steinmart.com/ and they match so it looks like somehow the requests bleed to other stores from that one store? Possibly some issue with the new rendering engine / online store 2.0 updates?

Also a disclaimer: it’s not a theme issue, the assets do not exist on any of those stores but they do exist on https://steinmart.com/.

Edit:
I hope it’s fixed soon as it’s a bit of performance issue for all the affected stores.

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Hi @RafalKumorek ,

Yes I just checked the source for https://steinmart.com/ and yes those assets are loaded in that shopify store.

I wonder why assets from steinmart are being loaded in other shopify stores.

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OK so it seems as if those 2 warnings were being pulled from another site?

Not necessarily something to worry about, however I’d sooner our site not load from elsewhere.. I’m assuming this is nothing I can fix then?

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@UK_Aspire_Vendo

Yes currently there is nothing you can do to fix this.

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If you have control of the preload itself, meaning that it is not being generated by a third-party (ie: an app) then you will need to prepend a stylesheet to the rel attribute of the tag.

For example, the following sample would silence that warning in Chrome’s inspector: