Big amount of projects in a thumbnailgrid = perfomance problems? first load to heavy?

[albrecht]

Hello,

I have a question in advance of a new project. I'm trying to find out if LayTheme might be the right choice for it or if there might be performance issues.

The challenge is to integrate a fairly large number of projects, starting with around 100 and later up to 500 or more projects. The projects themselves are quite simple, just artworks from different categories with different tags. So LayTheme might be the right choice for now, as the functionality is there. But: The project thumbnails should later be displayed in a thumbnail grid, so the thumbnail grid with more than 300 elements (or even more) that have to be loaded would be quite long and there is a risk that the loading time or performance would then be very bad. As far as I understand, lazy load is not part of a thumbnail grid, i.e. all elements would be loaded at the same time.

Maybe it could also be to adapt LayTheme theme by @Armin-Unruh (@arminunruh) or Marius' (@mariusjopen) to include a "load more" or lazy load feature to avoid the large amount of data that needs to be loaded on the first visit?

Thanks for your help (as always)
Albrecht.

[albrecht]

I made a really quick test, it seems to be fine so far. someone has experience with this?

https://seb.albrechtgaebel.de/ida-test-image

[arminunruh]

hey so if you have huge amounts of data, maybe it would be good to use a powerful server. i had very good experiences with spinupwp.com
i explain how to use it here:
https://laytheme.com/tutorials/make-your-website-load-instantly-and-manage-your-own-server.html

also kinsta.com makes a wordpress website superfast but i think its more expensive but is easier to setup

[arminunruh]

As far as I understand, lazy load is not part of a thumbnail grid

thats not true, all images are lazyloaded if you turned on this setting

what could make the website slower is just the amount of data that needs to be fetched from the database.
also there are wordpress plugins that transform your images to .avif files. avif files are much smaller and load much faster
the paid version of this plugin does that:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-converter-for-media/

but also the free version which converts images to webp is great, webp images are also much smaller

[albrecht]

thank you @arminunruh
I will follow your advise! :)