WordPress Performance and NextGEN Gallery

April 5th, 2011 Category: WordPress

A small hint which will help to improve page load time especially when using Firefox or Safari browser:

Maybe you’ve enabled the “flash slideshow” within the Slideshow options of NextGEN gallery. This will load the JW Image Rotator on every page. I’ve disable usage of the flash slideshow by unselecting the option:

[ ] Integrate the flash based slideshow for all flash supported devices

Without usage of the flash image rotator it is still possible to use slideshows. But the overall page load time increases. For me it looks like that loading the flash object causes the overall page display to be delayed. Google Chrome seems to handle loading of the flash object faster.

Anyway for me the fastest browser available seems to be Google Chrome. On my 13″ MacBook I recognize significant performance differences when using Safari, Firefox and Chrome. That’s the reason why I’m currently using Chrome (development version) as browser.

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