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GGANG
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Need some advice

07 May 2015, 01:27

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http://pornsaknanakorn.com/

Hello Karl and all friends,

The photography almost are 2048px 72dpi, Setting gallery : wide justified hover
Is it very heavy loading?
Do you have the another gallery setting for more faster loading?
Please let me know.
Thank you. :D :D
Last edited by GGANG on 18 Jan 2016, 02:14, edited 3 times in total.
 
Defiant
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Re: Need some advice

07 May 2015, 09:43

just looked over your webpage... yes it is slow for me....

you might want to resize your pictures to a smaller size...

(nice photo's!)
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Need some advice

08 May 2015, 03:01

@GGANG Yes, the website startpage is a bit heavy, especially since it is loading lots of images also for the menu at the same time as the full-size images for the slideshow.

Most importantly though, your slideshow images are very big. I checked one, and it was 2MB ...
http://pornsaknanakorn.com/content/home ... 200379.jpg

By comparison, images on our website mjau-mjau.com with the same size (2048px) are only 2-300kb!
https://cdn-x3.netdna-ssl.com/mjau-mjau ... people.jpg

I don't know from what application you are compressing and saving JPGs, but you can have MUCH HIGHER compression without having to upload smaller images. Another few reasons why you can afford much higher compression for large original images (2048 etc):
1. When images are this big, they will normally scale down in the browser, which makes artifacts of high-compression less visible.
2. Many modern devices are retina (double-density pixels), which can afford much higher compression without affecting the quality much.
If you want to review technical details about this, read this.

So because you are a photographer, I assume you normally review JPG compression by comparing compressed images in full size to the original? Basically, you can afford much higher compression for the web, because the original (2048) will always be scaled down, and compression-artifacts are much less visible because of this.

After adding higher compression, I would also recommend using a JPG-cruncher like imageoptim (mac), which will perform lossless (no loss in visual quality) compression on your JPG images. There are several applications that do this, and we have an active thread here:
https://forum.photo.gallery/viewtopic.php?f=9&p=37304

May I also ask, where is this website hosted, and what locations do you expect your website-visitors to come from? Since you have a fairly heavy website, it might benefit a lot by adding to cloudflare as specified in this forum topic:
https://forum.photo.gallery/viewtopic.php?t=8574

Your photos look amazing, although I did not get a chance to review all.
 
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GGANG
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Re: Need some advice

08 May 2015, 07:00

@Karl
mjau-mjau wrote: May I also ask, where is this website hosted, and what locations do you expect your website-visitors to come from?
This website host by Godaddy.
I have setting in the Google webmaster tool for the target users is Thailand.

and the another one thing, I have this code into .htaccess file for non-www and already verified in the webmaster tool for both version (www and non-www)
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Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.pornsaknanakorn\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://pornsaknanakorn.com/$1 [R=301,L]
How effect about this code?

Thank you very much for your advice. :D
mjau-mjau wrote:Your photos look amazing, although I did not get a chance to review all.
All photos by Pornsak Na Nakorn the professional photographer base in Thailand.
I already lets him read your comment. Thank you. :D


@Defiant
Defiant wrote:just looked over your webpage... yes it is slow for me....
you might want to resize your pictures to a smaller size...
(nice photo's!)
Thank you very much for your comments. :D
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Need some advice

08 May 2015, 11:24

GGANG wrote:This website host by Godaddy.
I have setting in the Google webmaster tool for the target users is Thailand.
Google webmaster tools will not have any effect on the speed of the website. Is the Godaddy server located in US? If most of the clients visitors are in Thailand, should not the host server be closer to Thailand? Bangkok or Singapore perhaps?

I am also based in Thailand, and use Cloudflare for most of our websites, because it means images and other static assets will get cached and served from Singapore. This makes the websites load much faster, because Singapore serves files very fast to Thailand.
GGANG wrote:and the another one thing, I have this code into .htaccess file for non-www and already verified in the webmaster tool for both version (www and non-www)
Code
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.pornsaknanakorn\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://pornsaknanakorn.com/$1 [R=301,L]
How effect about this code?
What is the question? The above code redirects all requests to http://WWW.domain to http://domain. It is a good idea, because I think www is outdated and nobody needs to read it in the URL. Besides, it is bad practice to have BOTH www and non-www urls available.
Click here http://www.pornsaknanakorn.com and you will see it goes to http://pornsaknanakorn.com
GGANG wrote:All photos by Pornsak Na Nakorn the professional photographer base in Thailand.
I already lets him read your comment. Thank you. :D
Me too. I saw you had some photo projects from Phuket where I stay :D
 
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GGANG
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Re: Need some advice

18 May 2015, 05:00

Hello Karl,
I'm sorry for late reply.
mjau-mjau wrote:Me too. I saw you had some photo projects from Phuket where I stay :D
I'm very glad. You're stay in Phuket, Thailand. A very nice place. I hope that you don't plan to move back.


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This image to tell you that all of images in this website have been more compress by jpegmini software.
Very amazing all of images can reduced by 4X without changing a color of them. Almost the same. :D

and now this site on a Cloudflare service. http://pornsaknanakorn.com/

Thank you very much for your advice. :D :D
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Need some advice

28 Apr 2020, 01:35

I decided to write a blog post about optimizing images for X3. See post:
Optimizing Images for Photo Websites