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    olelovold
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    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)?

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      mariusjopen
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      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 šŸ˜€

      Marius

      www.mariusjopen.world

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        @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 šŸ˜€

        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?

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

          Best!

          Marius

          www.mariusjopen.world

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

            Best!

            Marius

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            @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...

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

              Best!

              Marius

              www.mariusjopen.world

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                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.

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                  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"

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                    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.

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                      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.

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

                        Best!

                        Marius

                        www.mariusjopen.world

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