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November 17, 2014 at 7:02 pm #131922RachelandthecityParticipant
I've added a Genesis Responsive Slider to a website in the left side footer of a website I am setting up and the first 15 photos (that have all been resized to 600x400) added perfectly.
Now I am trying to add more photos (I have set up under Genesis slider settings for it to have 25) and none of them are adding correctly. All the settings I am choosing under post settings are the exact same settings that I chose when I added photos yesterday so I am at a loss why I am not able to add new photos.
Any ideas as to what the issue might be?
http://kathyhurleylovesmemphis.com
http://kathyhurleylovesmemphis.comNovember 17, 2014 at 7:48 pm #131925mickmelMemberI'm seeing 27 images down there, so apparently you got it fixed. Not sure why you are loading them at 600x400, though, when that area down there is looking for images at 357x241.
On a related note, you might want to show a whole lot fewer of them. That home page measures in at 18mb (or roughly 20-50x bigger than ideal). It'll be tough to rank well in Google for anything, and I feel bad for anyone that tries to load the site on a mobile device. Unless you feel that people will actually scroll to the bottom of page and watch 27 photos go by, I'd advise you to cut it down to 2 or 3 (or even just one) and try to get things running more quickly for your users.
November 17, 2014 at 8:18 pm #131928RachelandthecityParticipantI changed it out to a different slider after messing with the Genesis Slider for a few hours.
I'll relay your advice on the number of slides. I thought she should use fewer also.
November 17, 2014 at 8:40 pm #131935mickmelMemberYep, good move with Soliloquy. Great plugin from a solid developer.
I would frame the conversation with her as to why she should have ANY slides on the site, then go up from there. There is somewhere around 50 (!!!) slides on the home page right now, which is making my brain hurt. 🙂 Trying to talk down from there will be tough, and going from 50 to 40 isn't gonna solve the issues.
That said, nice job making it all come together and function smoothly.
November 17, 2014 at 11:16 pm #131951RachelandthecityParticipantThanks!
Can you tell me how to see how big the site is and what number I should be trying to aim for?
(We have removed quite a few and negotiating what to put back in!)
November 17, 2014 at 11:22 pm #131952RachelandthecityParticipantAlso, would a way to make the site run faster be to just place an instagram widget in the "Meet the Hurleys" area and have it pull pictures from her instagram instead of using a slider widget and hosting the photos on her site?
Thanks in advance!
November 18, 2014 at 4:36 am #131969mickmelMemberYou can test sites here: http://tools.pingdom.com/
The two numbers I like to look at are "requests" and "page size". Ideally I like to see requests under 50 and page size around 500kB or so, but it really depends on what your goals are.
The Instagram widget would help a bit; easing her server load is never a bad idea. However, you'd still be forcing users to pull down all of that data and the overall site speed would continue to suffer.
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