I've recently noticed that with our forum growing, the widget takes some time to show-up. And I'm wondering if on every home-page load it executes the corresponding SQL statements? Is that potentially slowing-down the forum if many people are loading it? Any way of caching that information rather than fetching it in real time?
Furthermore, if I edit the widget permissions so that only members see it, does it mean that the SQL queries are skipped for non-logged viewers? Or they are still executed but the widget is not shown?