Why do pics load so slow for me?

[Spysar]

I don't even look at long threads with pics, it's painfully slow. Then I noticed the pics on the Miss Montauk threads load really fast. This is the only site that seems load super slow. Why does one set of pics load fast, and most so slow I X out of the thread.

[nywaw]

Hmmm I haven't noticed the delay.  It may be the number of pics overall and their sizing.  The Miss Montauk is linked to FB hosted pics which are usually compressed quite a bit and lesser quality.  I'll look at compressing here more.  Both FB and this site use a CDN for delivering images so it should be fast from that regard. 

[nywaw]

Looking at a couple pics the FB ones are 1/5 of the size which is significant.  I'll review more and test some settings out.  

Also I don't see any delay on desktop but see a slight one while scrolling on mobile which makes sense given the difference in device hardware. 

[blackbeltbill]

29 minutes ago, Spysar said:

I don't even look at long threads with pics, it's painfully slow. Then I noticed the pics on the Miss Montauk threads load really fast. This is the only site that seems load super slow. Why does one set of pics load fast, and most so slow I X out of the thread.

  Easy and quick for me. OldGobbler Site- I gave up trying to upload pictures.  Same as Gobbler Nation Site. Facebook-- again no problem and Fast.

[mowin]

I haven't noticed any slowdown either. Videos and pictures are loading fine on my end. 

[nywaw]

Also on mobile, if you aren't on Wi-Fi you'll notice a difference.  Big difference in speed to download the files. 

[Spysar]

I'm not on fb at all . All other sites load pics ok...I suck on computers so it could be me. 

[Mattypotpie8s]

Same problem here. Seems fixed now though

[Bucksnbows]

I’ve never had an issue with the obvious exception of when I have poor cell reception. But that’s for all sites. On my laptop on the internet, it’s a very fast site. 

[G-man]

I find  if  i lessen the size of the photos  i post they load faster when looking  at them ... i agree with it being size of files being  looked at . 

[nywaw]

Moving forward, image sizes should be smaller for attachments without losing much (if any) quality compared to before.  I am working on rebuilding all images with similar settings to reduce the overall footprint.  This should help with page loading speeds on mobile especially.

[nywaw]

@Spysar

How is this topic?  It has a bunch of pics uploaded with new settings  

https://www.nywoodsandwater.com/forums/topic/2805-norwalk-river-restoration-in-ct/

[Mattypotpie8s]

Faster for me for sure. @nywaw

[Spysar]

Better for sure. Still not super fast, but way more doable. It still loads one pic at a time. Scoll over next pic, wait a few seconds, scoll to next pic, wait a few seconds, etc

[nywaw]

4 minutes ago, Spysar said:

Better for sure. Still not super fast, but way more doable. It still loads one pic at a time. Scoll over next pic, wait a few seconds, scoll to next pic, wait a few seconds, etc

I see a small delay on mobile but not seconds more of a sub-second delay (which is what lazy loading does, it loads them as you scroll to them to keep from having to load the entire page when it first comes up).  I don't see any delay on desktop.  This is generally due to connection speeds (on WIFI the delay is hardly noticeable but on cell signal it's more so).  I'm going to keep tinkering, but at least it is improving.

Also it's only going to apply right now for pics that were posted after I made that change the other day.  Anything posted on a date before then it still going to load slower.  So keep that in mind as you are viewing.  I'm still working on fixing the files from before the fix the other day.