[RobS]

Hi,

The AJAX pagination wasn’t meant as a solution to slow loading, but as a usability enhancement to allow stepping between gallery pages or photos within a gallery without having to have a complete page reload.

That said, There is a problem with gallery loading in that it seems slow…

I’m running on a 3.5GHz iMac with 16 GBytes RAM and the server is running under MAMP, so there is no network latency to consider… it’s entirely local.

The gallery in question has 75 photos and there’s a noticeable pause when the gallery is loaded. Loading a single photo details page is also slow (in that there’s a pause), and stepping between photos (next/prev) within the same gallery is similarly slow. It’s as if things are being calculated on demand for each and every page load.

I can probably alleviate things once I get cacheing running once the site goes operational, but the evidence suggests that at a fundamental level the plugin is slow at rendering a gallery page and displaying individual photo details…

I’m previewing photos via their own page, not as an overlay.

Hope that helps…

Cheers

Rob

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