Loading Issues

by NoobAdsenseWarrior

Posted: 12 years ago 7 replies

WEB DESIGN

Hey Warriors,

I'm having a few problems with one of my clients sites, the image gallerys are taking over 1 minute to load i have tried various things such as smush.it, w3 total cache, deleting un need files and post's but still no difference i have been onto my hosting provider and the site loads fine for them and it also runs fine for me..

so i really dont know what else to do be grateful if some one could have a look and let me know how to fix the problem and how long it takes for the page to load for you,,

page is albaniaholidays .org/hotels/hotel-mediterrane/

the plugin gallery im using is 1flash gallery arion

please could some one help

Paul

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NoobAdsenseWarrior 12 years ago

be grateful if some one could help me out!!
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Sean3000 12 years ago

Yeah, that's pretty slow. It's hard to tell what's causing the issue because it's a Flash plugin, so I can't look at any code.

My first thought is that the images are all really big and are just taking a long time to load. Are the images optimized for the web? Sometimes people just upload their raw 5MB pictures without realizing how big they are.

If it's not the size of the images, then I'd suggest looking for a new plugin, ideally one written in javascript. There are so many slick, fast javascript plugins available that there's no reason to get hung up on a single Flash gallery.
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UMS

12 years ago

The flash code is around 500KB before you start loading any images, so that certainly doesn't help.

Much better to use a non-flash slideshow/gallery. It will be a lot smaller and hopefully a lot faster.

[update]

I ran your site through webpagetest.org and the last 3 images in your gallery are between 2-3MB. That's certainly one big reason for slowness.

See http://www.webpagetest.org/result/11...31P/1/details/

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NoobAdsenseWarrior

12 years ago

Originally Posted by UMS

[update]

I ran your site through webpagetest.org and the last 3 images in your gallery are between 2-3MB. That's certainly one big reason for slowness.

See WebPagetest Test Details - Dulles : albani...hotel-mediterrane/ - 11/01/11 21:47:18

thanks for that hopefully resizing all the images will fix it.

Paul

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NoobAdsenseWarrior 12 years ago

thanks guys, whats the best option for gallery plugin?
also how do i optimize images for the web?

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Sean3000 12 years ago

I'd recommend getting the images down to the 25-100kb range. To do this, you'll want to convert them to JPEG format and make sure the quality setting isn't too high.

The quality setting is something that most decent image editing programs offer when you choose the "Export" or "Save for Web/Devices" option. This only applies to JPEG, not PNG or GIF.

The quality setting makes a huge difference in the size of the file. I've found that most images can be saved at less than a quarter of their original size with almost no loss in image quality.
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NoobAdsenseWarrior 12 years ago

im just re-sized some images there anywere from 60k - 120kb i will change them all to jpeg aswell,

i will try changing to jpeg now aswell see if theres a improved difference

thanks a lot
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