dkfxphotography wrote:I'm having some issues with my website with the images in the gallery pages loading extremely slow. I really like the images to be near full screen size, so I usually upload around 2000x1000 or so and the margin I believe is 10, but the loading has slowed waaaay down.
I know I made some changes but not sure if its' something I did or i'm just at the capacity of the program. I understand it's a bit older, and have thought about upgrading, but if the upgraded version won't fix my issue there's no sense in me doing so. I need all images to load up extremely fast.
When you say "the loading has slowed waaay down" ... you mean since updating your images to bigger files? Imagevue loads the images in at the capacity of your bandwidth, and it cant even load them slower if it wanted to. I tested your gallery here and could not see that it was specially slow, perhaps a bit below average. If anything, this is a factor somewhere between your internet connection, your server bandwidth, and perhaps also the times of the which affect traffic. As mentioned, I did not experience anything specific, but you would need to consider the speed of your host ... It all comes down to that, because it is not capped by Imagevue in any way.
dkfxphotography wrote:I'm also having an issue with hidden folders showing up as 'blank' or 'grey/white' pictures. I have a hidden folder here, and not only do the pictures load EXTREMELY slow, but my viewers must refresh the page multiple times before the images show up
What do you mean "grey/white" pictures? I checked that link, and I see this:
Again, it seems to load at acceptable speed here, and this is related to the same answer as above anyway. I can't confirm the page not loading, as in something that happened suddenly?
Most importantly though, should you not consider upgrading? You are on version 2.0 release perhaps more than 2 years ago, and now we are on 2.8.6:
https://www.photo.gallery/updatelog/