Performance Issues with Virtue Galleries

[DanL]

DanL

July 15, 2015 at 1:13 pm

Hello,

I recently built a new site using Virtue Theme to replace a customer’s old site. The old site and the new site are still fairly similar with the main differences being an updated design for mobile/responsive, and an easier to manage platform.

Here’s my issue…

The new site’s galleries perform HORRIBLY compared to the old site.

Here is one of the galleries in question on the new site (still in dev):

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Here is its counterpart on the old (currently live) site:

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The images are the same in both galleries, yet the old gallery page loads almost instantly, where the new one takes quite some time just to reach the point where it starts loading gallery images at all, and it takes awhile beyond that to actually populate the whole page. (These galleries contain hundreds of images.)

Both the old and new site are running on the exact same physical server – and the uploaded image files are EXACTLY the same files in both places – so I know the difference is not hardware/bandwidth/server-related.

Another quick question I have for you is this, “Where in the file system are the uploaded images for a Virtue Gallery located, since these images do not show in media manager?”

Any help, advice, constructive feedback, or suggestions on optimization/performance would be appreciated.

Thanks!
-Dan