I wouldn’t recommend adding more than one animated element to the page, it will really distract visitors and be a big hit on your server resources. Especially continuously animate items, these are a huge drain on your server’s CPU, it will significantly impact your site’s performance.
It looks like the slides in the first three were uploaded when the height was set to 200px, and the last one was added when the height was set to 278px. Reupload the other slide images and they should be the correct size.
Thank you for your advice yes indeed server drain is an issue.I was worried about that. But this is what my client wants….
Are you saying, that drain is more about having 8 slideshows running in 8 widgets at the same time, than the total kbs of the images being rotated? I was planning on 10kbs per image.
Maybe there are other ways I could achieve the same outcome, with less server drain. Any suggestions? Perhaps I could use just two slideshows, – one on each column, each one with height elongated. In photoshop I could stack 3 images into one jpg like a strip of 35mm film negative – height of 600 px Then each side will rotate a max of 5 images. Duh I did this already but I could not make the 600 px height take effect, even on just one slideshow, it kept displaying as 200 px or 278.. So do you suggest that if I removed them all and started again then I could make the slideshow 185 x 600 px?
The other really important question is, is it possible to set these meteor slideshows each to continuously loop rather than pause after each slide, and pause only on hover? Or if it cant be done then would you know of another plugin that can do this from the settings?
much obliged,
G
The main concern is the continuous animated loop, that is a big drain on your CPU, it just sort of builds up bit by bit without any down time. Even on a dedicated machine with one visitor, like a kiosk, it could get to be a problem, on a live website it’s definitely an issue.
Loading 8 slideshows can slow the page down due to the number of images and could add more load to the server animating 8 slideshows, but the main concern here would be the over all file size of all the images and what the total page load speed it.
Using two slideshows with a single image would definitely load faster and be more efficient.
Thanks for the advice. I will try that out.
