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marco963 · 25 Mar 2010, 07:38

Hello Karl.

Some times ago I wrote on this forum about performance issues I was trying to cope on V2.
My gallery was quite big (> 6000 images uploaded in more than 50 subfolders) and the response time to view the menu was quite unacceptable.
The problem was temporarily "solved" moving my website to a virtual private server. Now, due to budget constraints

I have moved again my website to a traditional shared Linux hosting.
Just to minimize the well known performance impacts, I have cut my gallery at 50% (now I have less than 3,000 images online) and I have drastically simplified the folder hierarchy. The performance are better than before, but in any case the time needed to "see" the menu is variable around 10 seconds (sometimes more, sometimes less).

10 seconds may be considered a reasonable time to wait, but I have verified on my website logs that many visitors leave the site after having waited for a while on the gallery main page (while it is being loaded), therefore it is really vital (in my opinion) to give a positive feedback to the visitor, besides the classic "flash hourglass" displayed while the page is loading.

My dream would be to see a new V2 release really efficient, light, with lightspeed performance

I am not going to give up the (unique) layout, features, sophistication of the best gallery I have ever tried, but I would like not to be "limited" in the gallery structure (e.g. folder hierarchy), number of images online, etc, etc.
Maybe a mySql version could solve the problem, or a more efficient cache mechanism, but I trust Karl and Nick, and I am waiting for a new great version !

Thanks to all for your efforts,
Marco

Nick · 25 Mar 2010, 12:30

Sorry to hear it Marco, but we still have some cards up or sleeves, unfortunately time constraints are preventing us from releasing new major update. But I think we'll might get this resolved.

julius_s · 23 Apr 2010, 03:26

I'm having extreme performance issues, too! Especially considering galleries above 250 photos. The CPU usage is nearly 100% over 20 seconds! By two or more clients accessing the gallery, the CPU usage on my machine was 200% (Core 2 Duo), that's heavy! How can that be? I love your gallery tool, so please try to improve the performance to an expectable level.

Thank you!

marco963 · 23 Apr 2010, 05:37

pain wrote:unfortunately time constraints are preventing us from releasing new major update. But I think we'll might get this resolved.

I love Imagevuex, it is unique in the galleries panorama, but keeping it online for several months on my website I have realized that, with the actual architecture and implementation, it cannot fulfill my requirements.

Imagevuex is unbeatable for small portfolios or limited galleries, but when the set of images grows, it cannot guarantee sufficient performance.
My website needs a faster response to efficiently drive potential customers (and keep them browsing my >6000 images gallery without losing their patience...) and unfortunately Imagevuex has in my humble opinion failed in this sense. I tried to cope this situation (at webserver level) buying a better (and more expensive) VPS hosting solution, but I cannot afford it anymore.

That said, I'm quite sad, but for the moment I had to temporarily move to a simpler HTML gallery, but I don't want to surrender and I am strongly waiting for a "new" revised Imagevuex, lighter, efficient and beautiful.

If I were Karl, I would stop the implementation of new functionalities and I would lighten Imagevuex; it is only my 5 cents opinion

Nick · 27 Apr 2010, 05:26

That's what we're working on right now, and something tells me that you'll be our first beta-tester.

01 May 2010, 03:36

Yup, I can confirm with Nick ... Next major release we are working on, does not do processing when loading the menu or loading folders. It will load cachd results from XML, which are generated from a "publish" interface in the admin.

It will speed up imagevue to the maximum!

julius_s · 03 May 2010, 11:46

When will that release be released

?

marco963 · 20 Jul 2010, 11:40

pain wrote:That's what we're working on right now, and something tells me that you'll be our first beta-tester.

Nick, I'm ready as a beta tester, let me know when you have a draft version to be tested.

Regards,
Marco

Patrick_D1985 · 22 Jul 2010, 17:31

Nice to hear an optimized version is coming

If you want a real hard test let me know.
71.000 + pics in the gallery (excluding thumbs and such)
(takes 30 secs to load and then its ready

) ... so that is'nt too bad I guess.

26 Jul 2010, 05:26

Would be interesting to test that ... in the new version, all data should be "cached" in XML files, so there would be no need for server-processing to count through images. It should make a huge difference for large directories like yours ...

There will be a "publish" button in admin that creates this cache, and basically loops through the folders. This will be slow of course, but will be interesting to see ...

Patrick_D1985 · 29 Jul 2010, 04:01

Whenever you are ready let me know

And I'll happily test it on our ever growing gallery.

The publish button needs to be done always?
Or just once for all and then afterwards you just do it on a folder base?

What also would be a nice feature now im thinking of it is a total picture fr the entire gallery. Would be nice to inform the viewers about that.

Anyway feel free to let me know if I can help you test anything for you guys

05 Aug 2010, 02:05

Patrick_D1985 wrote:The publish button needs to be done always?
Or just once for all and then afterwards you just do it on a folder base?

Good question, and I will have to discuss this with Nick. The idea is that everything needs to be cached after making changes, so that none of this is handled real-time when your visitor views it from the frontend. It should be clicked every time you are finished editing, changing or adding to your gallery ... Technically how it will work, I am not 100% sure yet.

Patrick_D1985 wrote:What also would be a nice feature now im thinking of it is a total picture fr the entire gallery. Would be nice to inform the viewers about that.

Not quite sure what you mean a "total picture" ... You mean a preview image for your gallery? What use?

Patrick_D1985 · 05 Aug 2010, 12:46

Hey Karl,

Thanks for your reply!

mjau-mjau wrote: Not quite sure what you mean a "total picture" ... You mean a preview image for your gallery? What use?

I actually menat a total number of pictures present in the entire gallery.
Little bit off-topic but I for one would like it

Further im looking forward to the cached front-end.
That the backed is slow .. .well I can live with that. visitors dont go there anyway

Let me know i f I can test anything in a latere stage

06 Aug 2010, 06:34

Where do you suggest this "total amount" number should be placed?

Patrick_D1985 · 06 Aug 2010, 14:56

It should be optionable.
Nobdy should be forced to use/show it.

But in the gallery menu at the the bottom would be nice.

Maybe even give a few options for such a thing.
- Display total number of pics in how many folders.
- Display total number of pics without folder notation.

Just an idea

It's all up to you guys

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