excruciatingly slow gallery

pdimeglio · 2015-02-17 05:11:30

I'm new to this version of the Response Gallery so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but the CRG is beyond slow even at 250 pics max on each page, the gallery takes forever to load and hangs up my browser to the point I can't do anything. The old CRG I had was CE 3.0.5 and even at 1000 pics max it loaded very fast. Can someone help and let me know what I may be doing wrong.

Thanks!

rod barbee · 2015-02-17 05:20:29

link?

pdimeglio · 2015-02-17 05:26:37

sorry about that

http://3lightphotography.com/proofing/p … /index.php

Ben · 2015-02-17 06:05:16

Hi, is this a Publisher-generated album or a standalone one that you have uploaded?

pdimeglio · 2015-02-17 06:06:54

it's a standalone uploaded to my site using the masonry layout and 250 max per page

rod barbee · 2015-02-17 07:23:40

still, 250 images at about 140kB per image. That's 35MB of images for the browser to load

Maybe smaller galleries broken up into logical sections would be better. Or smaller images or a lower jpg quality setting.

The standard layout might load faster than masonry too.

kmlucy · 2015-02-17 07:30:43

It loaded quickly for me on my phone (android), but very slow on my desktop. Given that masonry only loads on the desktop, and mobile uses standard, there might be an issue with masonry.

rod barbee · 2015-02-17 07:58:29

I remember something in the forum about masonry needing more resources...something like that. At any rate, the gist is that it's just slower to load

pdimeglio · 2015-02-17 08:18:37

140Kb? the thumbnails are 20kb to 16kb each, it's showing 140kb to you? that's so weird

Yes on the phone it loads fast and 1066 images on one page too which is fine

I recreated and uploaded the site two more times,

one with 150 images per page load times are quicker but still not efficient enough to give to a client

and I also created it without the masonry layout and that finally seemed to give me my original speeds that are acceptable.

I guess the masonry layout is a resource hog? when you have more than 100 images which is a shame because it's a very nice addition i think, hopefully later updates can maybe speed things up

Either way thanks guys!

rod barbee · 2015-02-17 08:22:08

the large images are 140kB

pdimeglio · 2015-02-17 08:27:12

so it background loads the thumbs and the regular sized images, hmmm i thought it just loaded the thumbs then once clicked, it showed the bigger ones, either way the old layout seems to kick ass for loading times which i guess is good

Thanks again!

rod barbee · 2015-02-17 08:34:31

I believe so. I could be wrong about that. But it certainly explains the looooong loading time.

Matthew · 2015-02-17 09:08:03

Large images are only loaded when the gallery calls for them, i.e. when you click the thumbnail, the large image is loaded. The slideshow will then preload the next image to facilitate faster browsing. But the only images loaded with the page are the thumbnails.

Masonry is best suited for smallish galleries. Any Javascript-powered layout is going to slow down the more items it has to work with. The standard layout is pure HTML and CSS, so much faster for larger galleries.

Otherwise, the way to speed things up is to reduce thumbnail dimensions or file quality. I think in most cases, a Quality settings of 69 is adequate, or go one step higher to 76. There is NO REASON to use a Quality setting higher than 76, though. File sizes inflate dramatically, with negligible fidelity gain.

pdimeglio · 2015-02-17 09:24:38

Thank You Matthew!

I will try the masonry layout at 60% image quality and see how it loads as well. My current setting is 75%

Matthew · 2015-02-17 10:51:09

If you haven't already seen it, this is a great article on Lightroom's handling of image quality:
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/jpeg-quality

pdimeglio · 2015-02-17 13:37:33

very cool, thank you!

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