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  • September 10, 2018 at 1:39 pm #1007913
    tixxpff

    Hi there,
    I need a recommendation for a best practice. Here’s my situation:
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    On my website, I have several inner pages with (multiple) image gallerys on them. Each gallery element (big preview image, no thumbnail images, lightbox opens on click) currently contains about 100-250 images. These pages take really long to load and I’d like to fix that, but I’m not quite sure how. I think the problem is either the number of gallery elements on the page or the number of images in total, so I see 2 possible solutions:
    1. Reduce the total number of images
    2. Reduce the number of image gallery elements (i.e. merge gallerys together)
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    Maybe you guys can help me understand from a developer standpoint which of the two takes a bigger toll on page speed. And if there’s a better solution than the two I’ve proposed I’d love to hear that, too!
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    Thank you!

    September 10, 2018 at 1:45 pm #1007917
    tixxpff
      I forgot to mention this:

    When I test the gallery pages, I’ve noticed that ALL the images are being loaded as soon as you load the page, which truly surprised me. I was under the impression that if I set my gallery to Big Preview Image, No Thumbnails that all the other images would NOT be loaded until a user clicks on a gallery and opens the lightbox. Do I have to enable lazy loading somewhere in the settings or is this just how the gallerys work?
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    I’ve attached a WebPageTest result for one of the pages in question. In the waterfall view you can clearly see how the entire gallery (all the images) are being loaded, even though they’re “hidden away” in the lightbox.

    September 11, 2018 at 8:12 pm #1008574
    Basilis

    Hi,

    Please post us your login credentials (in the “private data” field), so we can take a look at your backend.

    1. Install and activate ” Temporary Login Without Password “.
    2. Go to ” Users > Temporary Logins ” on the left-side menu.
    3. Click ” Create New “.
    4. Add the email address for the account ( you can use (Email address hidden if logged out) ), as well as the ” Role ” making that the highest possible and the expiry about four days
      ( do be sure that we have enough time to debug ).
    5. Click ” Submit “.
    6. You’ll now have a temporary account. Please provide us here in the private section the URL, so we can login and help you out.

    When your issue is fixed, you can always remove the plugin!
    If you prefer to not use the plugin, you can manually create a admin user and post the login credentials in the “private data” field.

    Best regards,
    Basilis

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