On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:51 -0800, Dave Rivbike wrote: > Yes, the slideshow. It makes the homepage heavier than it has to be. > Yet it's one of the most loved features of our site, has been for > years. > The images are downsized to a reasonable level, but you still have to > load them any time a new image is added or your cache is cleared. > For site speed, I'd love to have just one image there, the most recent > campout photo, but the slideshow is by far one of most popular > features on the site, so I'm kinda stuck there. > > I think if I removed that, I'd get more heat than if I leave it. > > One compromise is to simply have the most recent photo there on the > homepage with the featured products, and when you click on that image, > you redirect to the whole slideshow, or even better linked out to an > archive of ALL the previous homepage photos we've used in the past. > That way the site would load faster for everyone, and those that want > to watch pictures and simply click out to another page and can wait > for that to load. > Downside is you would get the same image each visit (till we change it > for a new one) instead of the random choice from the bunch.
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