Animal Jam has these things called loading points, once you go through a loading point, it loads an area, when you exit the loading point, it unloads that same area. This is usually apparent in Banned% runs & gem runs. Each transition between loading points takes a while based on your internet, it can take from 0.5 seconds all the way up to over a minute! When you go through a loading point, it could even do as much as making or breaking your run! Another crucial thing to note is your framerate. This is the amount of stuff that can happen in a single second, so just by knowing this, we know we want to have more frames in a second. The average computer runs at around 24fps (frames per second) but if you run a game at around 60fps, then our runs can almost be 2.5x as good! Having a very high, stable framerate, and a very good internet connection can help you a LOT in runs, so I'm here to explain some easy, free optimization tricks to helps make your runs better!

By the way, I'm going to list ways to have better framerates as FRAMES and for better internet connection as INTERNET.

INTERNET 1: A very vital thing for having better internet is to remove unnecessary devices from the internet if they aren't currently being used, and if your family isn't bossy (or if you're grown up / don't have a family), then you can remove all devices from the router that they don't need. FRAMES 1: I've found that a very good way to increase your framerate is by downloading a software called Crap Cleaner, or CCleaner for short. All it does is remove junk files from your memory to clear up RAM in your computer. I did just one scan and lost almost 3gb from one scan! This will probably grant you a few precious frames and you might get another second or two closer to the world record! INTERNET 2: This one is very simple, but it might help you a lot. Moving closer to your router / modem will allow you to drop a couple hundred milliseconds or so for each load. FRAMES 2: Try to join a server that has the least amount of people online on it. If your REALLY want to get the best out of it: here's what you do: Find how many plays there are in the spawn area in Temple of Zios, then do that for all of the areas that you can automatically spawn in. An optimal world should have under 25 players. Side note: you don't actually have to look at all the name tags to see how many plays there are, that would be really tedious. Instead, make rough estimates. INTERNET 3: Check how good your internet is, if YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION it's under or equal to 3 bars, reset your router. Otherwise, you should be fine. You should have the internet off for 3 minutes before you turn it back on. Make sure that if you are with a parent / guardian that you ask for permission first. FRAMES 3: A very good optimization for your framerate is recording with obs with 1x1p and set framerate to 60fps resolution. This isn't really helpful for speedruns, but you can have your phone or something to record your run.