Images on the SuperT site.

[VaporMadness]

A little off topic from the usual discussion in the subforum, but I've noticed that the SuperT site is slow to load, and consumes a lot of memory to view, and is generally sluggish. I looked into why a little bit and discovered that the images on the site are very very large. Much larger than is needed. They're really hurting the performance of the site.

David, it would be good to shrink the jpegs down to more reasonable sizes. The site would be much more responsive if you did so.

Smaller images would...
* use much less memory
* download much faster
* paint much faster
* be more http cacheable (they're currently larger than most caches will allow)

For example, the 18650 battery pic on the site is 4000 x 3000 pixels. For comparison, a typical computer monitor screen size is 1280 x 1024 pixels. Rendering a 4000 x 3000 picture takes a lot of memory. It's being displayed on the page with only 240 pixels in width, but the browser is working very very hard to produce that reduced size image out of the 4000 pixel wide source.

 

[leroytwohawks]

I totally agree it takes so long to load the pages, it's a pain to go and order from them. I won't stop but it should be fixed.

 

[forcedfuel50]

thats some good info to know...funny thing is, it doesn't load slow for me nor do the pictures load as big pictures (physically on the screen at any rate). That is why i never suspected anything was wrong.

Good to know, i'll take a look into it. I suspect it's because i loaded really hi res pictures up onto the sites photo clipboard.

David

 

[quasimod]

They may be loading quickly for you because they are already on your hard drive, and/or you have a business class connection (T1 line in an office building?). If you tried the site on a friend's computer at their home, you would see the difference.

 

[grimmer255]

thats some good info to know...funny thing is, it doesn't load slow for me nor do the pictures load as big pictures (physically on the screen at any rate). That is why i never suspected anything was wrong.

Good to know, i'll take a look into it. I suspect it's because i loaded really hi res pictures up onto the sites photo clipboard.

David

One way of getting it down...is first turning it into a JPG. The picture will look nice... there are several other ways of loading the picture as well like through javascript and HTML 5.

 

[SysEx]

What i'll normally do is make copies of the original photos and then change the image size so they all have the same top-width. I usually don't go over 640pixels; anything higher than that when several images are being used will cause load-times to increase.

 

[forcedfuel50]

I appreciate it, i'll make sure to go through and reload smaller images on there

 

[thewomenfolk]

Your pictures have never been 'too big' before. Something just got goofed up lately I suppose. Tonight the photos on your site are a normal size but loading very slowly, that's all. Dealing with pictures on the Net is a pain, that's the long and short of it.

Edit: I just went to another page on the ECF and the pictures of this guy's ecig were huge but resized slowly to normal. I remember this happening a week or two ago several times while surfing the ECF forum, so could all this maybe just be an ECF site problem?

 

[J-ShaZzle]

No, it's a supertmanufacturing website problem. Was going to bring this up earlier, but was lazy. The site bogs down my browser to the point of force close. This only happened after the new pics were uploaded to the site.

 

[VaporMadness]

I appreciate it, i'll make sure to go through and reload smaller images on there

Cool, thanx!

Even my super-computer at work was kind of stressed dealing with the Precise page. At some point the browser was using in excess of 500M when rendering that page. That's more memory than my personal computer at home has in it.

 

[Switched]

Your pictures have never been 'too big' before. Something just got goofed up lately I suppose. Tonight the photos on your site are a normal size but loading very slowly, that's all. Dealing with pictures on the Net is a pain, that's the long and short of it.

Edit: I just went to another page on the ECF and the pictures of this guy's ecig were huge but resized slowly to normal. I remember this happening a week or two ago several times while surfing the ECF forum, so could all this maybe just be an ECF site problem?

Pictures need to be resized to 640-480 for internet use. Resizing to 1024 by X is more than sufficient, and no it is not an ECF problem. The pictures that re-size here is a forum function, but I am surprised folks can actually upload them.

 

[forcedfuel50]

Ok, i resized them. Check it out and see if it loads faster for you too:

Electronic Cigarettes by Super-T

 

[VaporMadness]

Ok, i resized them. Check it out and see if it loads faster for you too:

Electronic Cigarettes by Super-T

Yes, that helped a lot! Thank you!

 

[Switched]

Running firefox I never really had a problem David, but now boom its there

 

[VaporMadness]

Running firefox I never really had a problem David, but now boom its there

Running Chrome myself

 

[AllanRR]

Reviving an old thread....

Are the hi res pics still available on the site? I currently have the P+ 500 and 350 pic as my wallpaper but it's kinda small on a 1440x900 screen resolution. If I stretch it to fit the screen, it's get a bit pixelized.
I'm having a hard time restraining myself to get a P+500 since I just got my first mod (a ProVari) 5 days ago.
Thanks.

 

[vapn]

Have a look in the P+ Thread. There are some loaded there that are pretty large I believe.

 

[forcedfuel50]

Reviving an old thread....

Are the hi res pics still available on the site? I currently have the P+ 500 and 350 pic as my wallpaper but it's kinda small on a 1440x900 screen resolution. If I stretch it to fit the screen, it's get a bit pixelized.
I'm having a hard time restraining myself to get a P+500 since I just got my first mod (a ProVari) 5 days ago.
Thanks.

Hi AllanRR! Yeah, i've been resizing them a bit smaller to load faster and are the higest resolution ones i have unfortunately.