Air-Britain Photographic Images Collection?

I don’t think the number of photos is relevant ( 400k is peanuts, frankly ).

Just loading the home page, at 07:50 on a weekday, took 34 seconds, without accessing the actual image gallery; just seven small static thumbnails on a basic HTML page. Edit: that’s on an 80 Mbps connection.

The metric we use at work is that each one-second delay in page loading costs 10% of visitors to abandon. By 20 seconds, we’d be out of business.

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400K is a pretty large number for a website. Its definitely not peanuts. even for a huge corporate entity, let alone an organisation run by volunteers. And yes when there are enough visitors on the rest of the website, even if your home page has nothing but text in it, it can get slow.

The slow running issue is being addressed by Air-Britain, but this will take longer to fix. The number of images on ABPIC is well over 400,000 and the application, now several years old, was never designed for such volumes, so alternative, affordable options are being considered.
G-APDK

I don’t think the number of photos is relevant ( 400k is peanuts, frankly ).

Just loading the home page, at 07:50 on a weekday, took 34 seconds, without accessing the actual image gallery; just seven small static thumbnails on a basic HTML page. Edit: that’s on an 80 Mbps connection.

The metric we use at work is that each one-second delay in page loading costs 10% of visitors to abandon. By 20 seconds, we’d be out of business.

Do let me know if you’d like any profiling assistance.

hi,
tried before dinner today, and it was ok…while I was writing this, the message above appeared…

regards,
jack…

ABPIC is up and running again, the technical support supplier failed to respond to the problem, until it was escalated to the “top of the office” when it was then fixed promptly.

The slow running issue is being addressed by Air-Britain, but this will take longer to fix. The number of images on ABPIC is well over 400,000 and the application, now several years old, was never designed for such volumes, so alternative, affordable options are being considered. Please also remember Air-Britain is run by a small number of volunteers so instant remedies are not always possible.
G-APDK

I hope so. I had stopped visiting it due to it being so slow.

It’s usually incredibly slow; perhaps they are hoping to fix that!

Apparently there is a technical issue they are trying to resolve.