Good afternoon,
We run an automotive website ( https://egzostive.com/ ) that relies heavily on Envira gallery. The gallery is however very slow (when loading over 100 photos of 2-300kbyte).
As an interim solution we started implementing pagination on our articles, and putting the full gallery to the last page, but we see the following issues:
1. Since our posts feature pagination the number of page visitors are lower than the impressions. Previously, each visit and the gallery clicks counted as a page view, hence visitor counts of over 2000 was easily possible. As an example, here is an article with 1831 views: https://egzostive.com/autoworld-porsche-70/
This one has the entire article on one page, but with a painfully slow load time.
Now with pagination, the clicks on the gallery (on the last page of the post) does not seem to count. We followed this approach in most of our 2022 post, ensuring much faster load time.
2. To reduce the load speed, I tried to introduce pagination on envira gallery as well, but this seems to show some conflict with the pagination of Newspaper: by clicking on next envira page, the article reloads on page 1 (see e.g. here: https://egzostive.com/zoute-concours-2021-anniversaries-alfa-1900-countach-etype-sm-quattro/3/ ).
Is there any solution in sight?
3. Irrespectably of Envira, for the pages with several pages, the visitor stats seems to remain below actual visibility, as the stats do not seem to grow with navigating between the pages of the article..
Strangely our calendar post (https://egzostive.com/the-ultimate-2022-car-show-and-events-list/ ) does not have pagination (or Envira), and still shows a big stat discrepancy: the visitor count on the article shows 896 counts, but my WordPress dashboard shows 2651 views, which seems closer to the actual visitor figures.
Can it be that Newapper’s page-count is wrong? How can this be remedied?
4. I read that in some cases you replied that Envira is not tested, but then comes the question: what is Tagdiv’s solution for a gallery plugin? Envira is one of the most recommended plugins, and we invested considerable time and also some money in implementing it, so we would need an efficient way to harmonise our website to any other alternatives.
Best
Egzostive.com
Hello!
As a suggestion, disable the lazy load animation: https://www.screencast.com/t/O5pfqQdb, delete the cache and see the results.
We did not tested this kind of gallery, so we can not say if there is a possibility to work with our theme.
About the counter problem, please disable the cache plugin that you use, clear the cache from your browser and try also in an incognito tab.
Other alternatives, could be the tagdiv gallery: https://forum.tagdiv.com/gallery-2/ or Revolution slider: https://forum.tagdiv.com/import-revolution-sliders-on-demos-prebuilt-websites/ -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-install-revolution-slider-v5/
Thank you!
Hello,
Thanks for the swift answer.
I did as suggested and the speed related issue is solved. Thanks!
As for Envira, there are a few really well known galleries, which could be indeed tested. Envira is one of the first coming up at every article on WordPress galleries.
I will test the Newspaper’s own gallery you suggested. Does it work with Gutenberg disabled?
As for the counter, it does not seem to improve. I tried as suggested, but the visitor states are still not in line with that of the WordPress dashboard. For the article on events calendar ( https://egzostive.com/the-ultimate-2022-car-show-and-events-list/ ) the article still shows only 909 (and I had the impression the numbers go backwards) while the WordPress dashboard tells me 2760.
Hello!
Yes, it should work.
Thank you!
