very slow loading of large albums

amirggg

Hi,

We are using Zenphoto with zpGalleriffic theme that is utilizing the jQuery script Galleriffic

whenever we upload big gallery with a large number of photos (e.g. >1000) it gets really slow to open the gallery, for ~2000 images gallry it could take even 15 min for the first time. Most of the pics are 800X600 only.
Take for example this gallery with 1277 pics.

http://84.94.229.140/zenphoto/index.php?album=198-eee11be

Could you please advice how could we speed up the loading process? users will not wait such a long time...

BR,

Amir

sbillard

Your theme (which is not one of the supported ones) seems to want to load all the images before it displays anything. With this many images you would really need to start showing things before all images are sent to the browser.

You can do the math. 1277 * 800 * 600 * 3 = 1,838,880,000 bytes of data not counting any overhead bytes. So, what do you thing the thruput of your server/web connections are? In addition, there will be processing overhead both on the server and the browser for handling the images.

This is one of the reasons most themes break the album down into manageable pages of thumbnails and show only a few per page.