A moving carousel of your last 30 posts, delivered live from Instagram's servers each time the page opens. Measured today: 8 to 14 MB of that delivery per visit, video files included.
Both versions below are shown with your six most recent photos so you can compare them directly. The top one is how the section works on your homepage today. The bottom one is the lighter version.
"Lighter" does not mean a new look. It changes what loads invisibly behind the photos, not how the section appears on the page.
What stays the same: the navy band, its place on the homepage, and your photos. A visitor scrolling past would not notice anything happened.
What actually changes, measured: I tested your live homepage today with Google's speed tool on a simulated phone connection, three runs each way. As it is now, the page downloads about 18 MB per visit, and the Instagram strip is 8 to 14 MB of that, video files included, roughly half of everything the page carries. With the strip lightened the page drops to about 8 MB, and the time it takes to finish drawing on a phone falls from about 16 seconds to 9. Your six photos add back less than 1 MB.
About the photos updating: the six homepage photos no longer change by themselves when you post; swapping in newer ones takes about a minute in the editor, and I will leave you simple instructions. If you like having a feed that updates itself, the current live version can move to your Photos page at no extra charge, so it keeps updating there while the homepage stops paying for it.
Method, for the record: Lighthouse 12, phone simulation, medians of three runs on 2026-08-20. The "after" figures come from the same live page with the Instagram feed switched off for the test; the real before and after is re-measured as part of the final check-off, so you are never asked to take these numbers on faith.