diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d3387a931..8849f037b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,23 +2,27 @@
 
 ## Update for 2025-04-05
 
-- **Features**
+- **Features**  
   - Pipe: [SoftFill](https://github.com/zacheryvaughn/softfill-pipelines)  
-- **Caching**
+- **Caching**  
   - add `TeaCache` support to *Flux, CogVideoX, Mochi, LTX*  
   - add `FasterCache` support to *WanAI, LTX* (other video models already supported)  
   - add `PyramidAttentionBroadcast` support to *WanAI, LTX* (other video models already supported)  
-- **Other**
+- **UI**  
+  - client polling speeds up and slows down depending if client page is visible or not  
+    client polling does not ask for live preview if page is not visible  
+    significantly reduces server load if you hide or minimize the page  
+  - progress: use batch-count for progress  
+  - grid: add of max-rows and max-columns in settings to control grid format  
+  - gallery: add max-columns in settings for gradio gallery components  
+- **Other**  
   - ZLUDA: add more GPUs to recognized list  
     select in scripts, available for sdxl in inpaint model  
   - LoRA: add option to force-reload LoRA on every generate  
-  - Grid: add of max-rows and max-columns in settings to control grid format  
-  - Gallery: add max-columns in settings for gradio gallery components  
-  - Diag: add get-server-status to UI generate context menu  
-- **Changes**
-  - Params: Reset default guidance-rescale from 0.7 to 0.0  
-  - Progress: add additional fields to progress API  
-  - Progress: use batch-count for progress  
+  - diag: add get-server-status to UI generate context menu  
+- **Changes**  
+  - params: Reset default guidance-rescale from 0.7 to 0.0  
+  - progress: add additional fields to progress API  
 - **Fixes**  
   - Logging: logging cleanup  
   - Styles: resize and bring quick-ui to forward on hover  
diff --git a/javascript/progressBar.js b/javascript/progressBar.js
index a244232d1..f0e19e725 100644
--- a/javascript/progressBar.js
+++ b/javascript/progressBar.js
@@ -133,9 +133,10 @@ function requestProgress(id_task, progressEl, galleryEl, atEnd = null, onProgres
 
   const start = (id_task, id_live_preview) => { // eslint-disable-line no-shadow
     if (!opts.live_previews_enable || opts.live_preview_refresh_period === 0 || opts.show_progress_every_n_steps === 0) return;
+    const request_id = document.hidden ? -1 : id_live_preview;
 
     const onProgressHandler = (res) => {
-      if (res?.debug) debug('livePreview:', dateStart, res);
+      if (res?.debug) debug('livePreview:', dateStart, request_id, res);
       lastState = res;
       const elapsedFromStart = (new Date() - dateStart) / 1000;
       hasStarted |= res.active;
@@ -163,8 +164,7 @@ function requestProgress(id_task, progressEl, galleryEl, atEnd = null, onProgres
       done();
     };
 
-    const request_id = document.hidden ? -1 : id_live_preview;
-    xhrPost('./internal/progress', { id_task, request_id }, onProgressHandler, onProgressErrorHandler, false, 30000);
+    xhrPost('./internal/progress', { id_task, id_live_preview: request_id }, onProgressHandler, onProgressErrorHandler, false, 30000);
   };
   debug('livePreview start:', dateStart);
   start(id_task, 0);
diff --git a/modules/progress.py b/modules/progress.py
index ab1230ff7..83758cc7f 100644
--- a/modules/progress.py
+++ b/modules/progress.py
@@ -93,14 +93,13 @@ def api_progress(req: ProgressRequest):
 
     debug_log(f'Preview: job={shared.state.job} active={active} progress={step}/{steps}/{progress} image={shared.state.current_image_sampling_step} request={id_live_preview} last={shared.state.id_live_preview} enabled={shared.opts.live_previews_enable} job={shared.state.preview_job} elapsed={elapsed:.3f}')
 
-    print('HERE1', req.id_live_preview, shared.state.id_live_preview)
-
-    if shared.opts.live_previews_enable and active and (req.id_live_preview != -1) (shared.state.id_live_preview != req.id_live_preview) and (shared.state.current_image is not None):
-        shared.state.set_current_image()
-        if shared.state.current_image is not None:
+    if shared.opts.live_previews_enable and active and (req.id_live_preview != -1):
+        have_image = shared.state.set_current_image()
+        if have_image and shared.state.current_image is not None:
             buffered = io.BytesIO()
-            shared.state.current_image.save(buffered, format='jpeg')
-            live_preview = f'data:image/jpeg;base64,{base64.b64encode(buffered.getvalue()).decode("ascii")}'
+            shared.state.current_image.save(buffered, format='jpeg', quality=60)
+            b64 = base64.b64encode(buffered.getvalue())
+            live_preview = f'data:image/jpeg;base64,{b64.decode("ascii")}'
         else:
             live_preview = None