Title: Slow loading
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Slow loading

 *  Resolved [libaudie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/libaudie/)
 * (@libaudie)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-loading-41/)
 * Hi,
 * I have about 40 pictures of 1200 x 800 pixels.
    It does take about 2 minutes 
   before the slideshow starts. Are there ways to improve it? See [http://valleedutarn.com/landscape/](http://valleedutarn.com/landscape/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-slider-3/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-slider-3/)

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 *  Plugin Support [Gabor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nextendweb_gabor/)
 * (@nextendweb_gabor)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-loading-41/#post-7123872)
 * Hi! The main problem with your images is, that they have too good quality, a 
   lot of them are over 1M. You should use an image editor like Photoshop or GIMP,
   where you have the option to save down your images with lower qualities in a 
   way, that a human eye couldn’t even see the difference.
    So try to make them 
   smaller, around 200k would be the best, but at that point there might will be
   a difference.
 * In the full version you could also have lazy loading option:
    [http://doc.smartslider3.com/article/66-advanced](http://doc.smartslider3.com/article/66-advanced)
   which would make your slider only load as many images at once, as much you choose
   to load.

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