The look of the website is

PuneetJvw — Sat, 27 May 2017 09:47:58 +0000

The look of the website is not very good plus it is NOT mobile friendly.

Instead of fixing just 1 thing, re-design the whole site.

Cheers!

You need to optimize images

isarbjitgrewal — Fri, 26 May 2017 03:40:07 +0000

You need to optimize images and user content delivery network to speed up website. 5000 images is a huge amount of data that makes your website slower.

First thing, you should

brucemesnekoff — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 13:31:42 +0000

First thing, you should optimise your images. For example: A image is placed in a div with the 500px width and the image has 1200px width. Obviously the image is taking the more size with more size. So you should optimize your images first. The database option is also good. You can store the images name in the database and then just provide the reference with the image name to display.

Thanks Bruce Mesnekoff

using database to store image

hillajax — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:59:40 +0000

using database to store image as binary quite expensive deal, the main problem is to delete the database and handling the exception.If your website is going slow it's your servers problem, databse can reduce it to few limits. You can make a website that works on Requests and action i.e. runs on MVC model. That is good exercise. store the address of your image location or image name in database and image location in hard disk is quite good option.

The big thing you need to

Greg K — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:35:14 +0000

The big thing you need to speed up the site is to have thumbnails of the images, instead of displaying the full size image on the page.

Take for example this page: http://www.embracesacredplaces.org/britain.html

You have a total of 51megs of images for the viewer to see. A database is going to do nothing the change that. A system that lets you upload the images and it will auto make thumbnails of the images for you, that will make a HUGE difference. (Granted, most systems that allow this will be database driven in the background)

For fun, I just went through and resized those 28 images down to the size that you display them at, (180x180px). It drops the total image size needed down load to only about 1meg, that is 50megs less than what you have, a HUGE difference on page load. (And also resizing them properly, gets rid of the stretched resizes, like the first image in the third row down). It was nothing fancy, I did them with the free Gimp editor with these steps:

Open the image in Gimp
In top menu: Image -> Scale Image
Set Width or Height (whichever is SMALLER) to 180 (let other one auto set)
Click the "Scale" button at bottom
In top menu: Image -> Canvas Size
Set Width or Height (whichever is NOT already 180) to 180.
Click the "Center" button to center the image
Some images you may want to drag it to something other than center (ie, if there was a lot of sky over the main object, drag it up so there is less sky in the thumnail)
Click the "Resize" button at bottom
In top menu: File -> Export As
It should default to the same directory you opened it, and default to .jpg, just add something like "_tn" or "_thumb" to the end (before the extension... filename_tn.jpg )
Click "Export" button
I let it defaults on the options screen (90 for quality level)

-Greg

Dear Greg K, While going into

ansvdb — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:45:15 +0000

Dear Greg K,

While going into the website, it takes longer time to see the pages. The pages are loading, but very slowly. Each page may have 10 to 60 pictures.

We are using WYSIWYG software to create the site. It is windows based. We are hosting on the Linux based hosting system.

We want to speed things up for anyone who wanted to see the website and pictures.

Our website is - www.EmbraceSacredPlaces.org

I received several opinions regarding using database and not using database.

Thank you for your response.

Regards.

In what way are you hoping to

Greg K — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 21:43:56 +0000

In what way are you hoping to speed things up? Am I correct that you want to be able to limit how many images per page?

A database would be a good way to manage them, and allow you to categorize them, and change dynamically how many per page.

The first question for how to go about setting it up is what environment the site is currently using.