Thumbnail File Size

Resolved dsb0328
(@dsb0328)

7 years, 9 months ago

Hello. I was wondering if there is a setting to change the size of the thumbnails for each gallery. At 60-90k a piece, that can really add up to a lot. (ie. for an 82 image gallery, the thumbnails add up to over 5 mb and that slows the load time down a lot.) And we are wanting to keep all of the thumbnails on the same page instead of splitting them up.

Not that I want to do this every image that I upload, but I could pull each image off the server and re-save if that’s possible and there’s no other option.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Plugin Contributor Imagely
(@imagely)

7 years, 9 months ago

Hi @dsb0328,

I would be happy to help.
You can try to use Imagify in order to optimize the images and respectively reduce the images’ size https://imagify.io/documentation/optimize-images-nextgen-gallery/

Best Regards,
Mihai
jackennils
(@jackennilsen)

7 years, 9 months ago
Use EWWW Image Optimizer in combination with NGG. I do use it and it’s working great. Shane Bishop (the dev of said plugin) does an excellent job. 🙂

Take a look here:
https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/
- This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by jackennils.
Thread Starter dsb0328
(@dsb0328)

7 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for both of these suggestions. I tried the Imagify already, but unfortunately I have way more images than the free version allows and I’m not sure if it really did much to help the problem anyway. I’ll go ahead and try the EWWW plugin next.

Plugin Contributor Imagely
(@imagely)

7 years, 9 months ago

Hi @dsb0328!

1.- Check your image sizes: The larger your images, the more dramatic the difference. We would suggest optimizing your images for the web by resizing them to 960px.

2.- Check the first load vs subsequent load. Could you confirm whether or not after reloading your page with your gallery, if opening it up again in a different browser helps?

3.- Remove any plugins you don’t need. Consider deactivating Jetpack, which together with NG for some reason seems to slow performance. A good plugin I would suggest to install to help you identify the larger plugins that use a lot of server resources: P3 Plugin Profiler (NextGEN will be one of them, because it is a large plugin, but it will help you identify others that you might consider deactivating and removing if you aren’t using them).

4.- Optimize Your Database & Remove ‘Bloat’. Install and use WP-Optimize to help optimize your database tables and remove ‘bloat’ from your site (i.e. page & post revisions, spam comments).

Install a caching plugin. Some highly rated ones are: W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache.

Please keep us posted!

-Gaby

Plugin Contributor Imagely
(@imagely)

7 years, 8 months ago

Because it has been a month or more since your last reply, I am going to mark this as resolved as I assume you have found a solution.
Please feel free to reply again if you still have questions.

Thanks!