Slow on mobile?

  • Hey! So I asked this earlier in the year but had temporarily switched to a different gallery plugin. Well, I’d like to use Final Tiles again, but it still seems to load a little bit slow on mobile devices. It’s probably not the end of the world, but would like it to be faster if possible.

    Am I the only one? Anyone else noticed this? If you go to my site it’s the “Portfolio” gallery on the landing page. The files should be small enough, and they seemed to load fairly quickly with the Jetpack tiled plugin. I just like the look of this one better.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Hi @kurtismjohnson,

    Thanks for reaching out!

    I just checked the gallery and most of the images are quite large (roughly 2000×2000 px). I recommend resizing them to a smaller size and it should improve the loading time.

    Please let me know how it goes!

    Warmly,

    Mihaela

    Thread Starter kurtismjohnson

    (@kurtismjohnson)

    Thanks! Ive gone smaller before but they looked grainy/low res in the Lightbox which was also frustrating. Currently they’re about 500kb-1mb when exported, them compressed a bit more on top of that. Maybe that is still too large. I never went lower than 1500px on the long edge though. But yes, these are currently closer to 2000.

    Thread Starter kurtismjohnson

    (@kurtismjohnson)

    Ok I went and resized the photos. There are still 3-4 that I didnt have the original files for with me so I will have to do those later, but 95% are smaller. Maybe it’s a little better?

    Couple of additional questions:

    1. Is it possible I just have too many photos in the gallery? Does it matter? I want just one simple gallery for people to see when they visit the page.
    2. Is there a way to make the Lightbox smaller? When I click on a landscape oriented photo, it stretches it quite a bit and looks pixelated, especially on a larger screen.
    3. Am I just overthinking this? Its possible I am pixel-peeping my own photos which no one else is likely to do…

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter kurtismjohnson

    (@kurtismjohnson)

    Ok, sorry for replying so much, but by the time you see this and check again, I have made another gallery with photos that are 2000px long side but compressed to match the other smaller size of the last gallery I made. Theyre between 200-400kb each. I have a couple different galleries now that I can swap out pretty easily. But this one seems to look the best and according to Pingdom’s speed test I am in pretty good shape.

    I still am curious about my 3 questions above though. It still seems like it loads a little slow on mobile, but it’s not terrible. I’m open to making the images even smaller but I also dont want to sacrifice quality.

    Anyways, sorry for the rant. I appreciate the assistance.

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