Slow loading

[olelovold]

Hello!

Been using Lay Theme for a while and been pretty happy with it. I recently decided to change the presentation of my website and have smaller thumbnails which then could be enlarged by clicking on them. So I purchased the lightbox plugin for this, which works well. The only problem (and a pretty big one) is that the thumbnails load very slowly. See my website here: www.olelovold.com

What am I doing wrong here? Too many images on one page? Am I uploading them in too large a size (1600 px tall for retina displays)?

[mariusjopen]

Dear @olelovold
in LayTheme settings you can chose if you want to use Lazyload or not.

Have you seen that.
Also you can chose if you want to use compressed images or not.

Have a look 😀

Marius

[olelovold]

@mariusjopen said in Slow loading:

Dear @olelovold
in LayTheme settings you can chose if you want to use Lazyload or not.

Have you seen that.
Also you can chose if you want to use compressed images or not.

Have a look 😀

Marius

Hi Marius,

Thanks for the tips. I've tried both lazy-load and instaload, and I have tried compressing the images too. Still it takes forever to load the page, it's pretty much unusable in it's current state. The problem seems worse with Safari than with Chrome though. Any idea as to why?

[mariusjopen]

Dear @olelovold
can you try to deactivate all the non-Lay plugins?

Best!

Marius

[olelovold]

@mariusjopen said in Slow loading:

Dear @olelovold
can you try to deactivate all the non-Lay plugins?

Best!

Marius

Hi again! Yes, tried this too - still the same, unfortunately...

[mariusjopen]

Dear @olelovold
there are many images.
I will check with Armin.

Best!

Marius

[arminunruh]

Hey,

Omg I see that sometimes the wrong version of an image is loaded.
Let me try to fix this and I will publish an update soon.

[arminunruh]

Ok, so the right images were loaded, but yeah it is really slow because all images inside a lightbox are preloaded.

I just released an update for the lightbox plugin!
Please update your lightbox plugin. Now go to "lay options" -> "lightbox addon" and disable "Preload Images in Lightbox"

[olelovold]

Hi guys, thanks for trying to help.

In Safari, my pictures don't load at all. Using Chrome, the images do load, sporadically at first. Eventually all the pictures load, but it takes a while. So it's pretty unusable at the moment. I'm thinking I should just go back to the way I had the website before - big images (not using the lightbox plugin...), several pages with fewer pictures on each page.

[olelovold]

So I've re-done the website and divided my work into four sub-pages. Turned off the lightbox plugin too. Loading images is far quicker, though some pictures seem to take quite a bit longer to load than others.

[mariusjopen]

Dear @olelovold
all right. Let us know when you need further assistance.

Best!

Marius