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Slow & Laggy Activity Stream (Optimization Ideas)

  • @deklein

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    9 years, 6 months ago

    I am starting a music sharing webiste and the site is mostly complete at this point. The site seems to be running and loading fast with an exception of two things. The activity streams (BuddyPress) and the Collections (bbPress Forums). I know that these two areas are loading slow due to the media that fills them.

    http://www.chuneplay.com/activity/

    On my site you can embed links to music or upload directly to the site and that is taking a toll on the lagginess of these pagaes. I will post some pictures of my plugin performance report. 50% is due to “BuddyPress Media” which is no surprise.

    Breakdown of plugin load times: http://postimg.org/image/xukwsvo8f/

    What I am looking for as a solution does not have to be black and white. Is there a way I could change the activity settings to show a text-only preview of the activity update with the option to drop down to open the full post with the player? Then when you click to open another activity update the first one closes? Will that even help? Give me some ideas to help the page not be so laggy because after this issue is fixed I am super excited to start recruiting members to my site!! Thanks

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  • @deklein

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    9 years, 6 months ago

    I wanted to update with some more details on that idea I had going in the last paragraph since I have done some more research. From my understanding, if a post is extremely long, buddypress will naturally create an “excerpt” of the post and give you a button to press to show the full post. I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN AUTOMATICALLY FOR EVERY POST THAT HAS A PLAYER/VIDEO IN IT. All i want to show is the text included with an option to load the player included in the post. I feel this would dramatically increase load times which would make using my site more rewarding. Any ideas or code I could add in to do this would be so appreciated! (:

    @deklein

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    9 years, 6 months ago

    Another Update! A GOOD ONE

    I downloaded two more plugins and resolved the issue to about 80% satisfaction, although I’d still like some ideas if you’ve got some.

    I downloaded lazy load for images
    I downloaded lazy load for video

    This has caused a drastic increase in the page loading and scrolling speed. I was able to change the number of items loaded to 12 and it scrolls smoothly other than past the soundcloud links. Lazy load for videos has plans to become compatible with soundcloud links as well which will be great when that happens.

    Im still so curious as to how hard it would be to format the activity stream into excerpts of the post into small squares with a sentence of text and a thumbnail image to be able to show 16 or more posts without having to scroll. Lets hear it from the coding experts! (:

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