Smugmug galleries loading slowly

  • Resolved onacosmicscale

    (@onacosmicscale)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Sayontan,

    A handful of times in the last week or so my Smugmug galleries have taken up to a minute to load while displaying the loading animation. Is there a way to optimize this or does it just happen occasionally? It results in a very poor experience for visitors to my site. Thanks.

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  • Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    If you are displaying full-sized images in the justified grid, that is going to slow down the performance depending on how big your images are. If each image is more than 2MB, the browser will attempt to download all the images, and depending on the connection speed there will be lags. This has nothing to do with Photonic as such, rather it is a connectivity issue between the user’s browser and SmugMug.

    To reduce some of the impact you can make use of the “Tile Size” setting, and set it to some size in the middle. That way, when the layout is being displayed the user is not loading full-size images, but when the lightbox is opened, the full-size image is shown.

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