Gifs chaining site performances - Bad for SEO & Google results

[GamingHQ]

It has come to my attention that more and more users are starting to use a GIF for their plugin uploads as an avatar to promote their plugin or prefab. However, nowadays, it has become a chain for the website, losing its performance as all the gifs need to load in. 

GIFs are bad and a big nogo for SEO. if you oversaturate your page with too many of them, they will simply slow down the site's loading time, and Google takes this into account when ranking pages.

[Death]

The fact it's a gif has very little to do with the size of the payload. We have a pretty strict size restriction on screenshots to prevent large images from affecting the paint speed of our site. In addition, we have three layers of caching as well as serving all static and revolving content via a CDN. This has little impact on our SEO.

Even if it did affect our SEO it's a nice tradeoff as gifs make products far more appealing and allow creators a way to garner more impressions by having engaging thumbnails.

[GamingHQ]

10 hours ago, Death said:

The fact it's a gif has very little to do with the size of the payload. We have a pretty strict size restriction on screenshots to prevent large images from affecting the paint speed of our site. In addition, we have three layers of caching as well as serving all static and revolving content via a CDN. This has little impact on our SEO.

Even if it did affect our SEO it's a nice tradeoff as gifs make products far more appealing and allow creators a way to garner more impressions by having engaging thumbnails.

i really wonder why the website keeps loading time to time for 5 min for a simple image.

[GamingHQ]

Same with this kind of unneeded image. This is a website where u can buy stuff from others, not a meme fan forum.

 

 

[Death]

34 minutes ago, GamingHQ said:

i really wonder why the website keeps loading time to time for 5 min for a simple image.

It's possible you're experiencing a cache miss. That's when the edge cache took too long to respond so an origin call was made, causing the longer paint speeds. I just deployed another bucket to hopefully intercept these misses and prevent your browser from having to wait for origin calls.

[Kobani]

Currently it is actually almost impossible for me to search for plugins because the page takes a very long time to load or hangs up. all other pages work. I have even tried other browsers and still there are problems. I hope they find a solution soon

Edited September 15, 2023 by Kobani

[Death]

3 hours ago, Kobani said:

Currently it is actually almost impossible for me to search for plugins because the page takes a very long time to load or hangs up. all other pages work. I have even tried other browsers and still there are problems. I hope they find a solution soon

Check your internet connection or try clearing your browser cache. Also, what country are you connecting from so I can do some local testing on our end?

[GamingHQ]

I do must say, yesterday it was so laggy, some CSS even didn't wanted to load in correctly ( hyperlinks, menu buttons e.d ) 

[Kobani]

9 hours ago, Death said:

Check your internet connection or try clearing your browser cache. Also, what country are you connecting from so I can do some local testing on our end?

I have tried all that. And yes even other browsers, with all the same. Other pages work without problems. I come from Germany

[Death]

21 minutes ago, Kobani said:

I have tried all that. And yes even other browsers, with all the same. Other pages work without problems. I come from Germany

Thanks for that information. So this only happens to you on the plugins page?

[Kobani]

Actually it occurs everywhere, in the discussions, in the search.... the loading sign is displayed and I can't click anything on the page. Right now, for example, I can't do anything. I am trying to reply to you right now. I have to close the browser completely. And then, with luck, it works again. Sometimes it works, then it doesn't. I can't explain it to myself. Because everything else works, Discord, streams, youtube, Netflix, Games, everything without problems. 

[Death]

30 minutes ago, Kobani said:

Actually it occurs everywhere, in the discussions, in the search.... the loading sign is displayed and I can't click anything on the page. Right now, for example, I can't do anything. I am trying to reply to you right now. I have to close the browser completely. And then, with luck, it works again. Sometimes it works, then it doesn't. I can't explain it to myself. Because everything else works, Discord, streams, youtube, Netflix, Games, everything without problems. 

This sounds like you might have some poorly cached JS on your browser. Could you clear your browser cache?

[Kobani]

I have already deleted everything and even tried new browsers. Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari 
I will soon completely rebuild the PC. Let's see if it will be better afterwards. 

[Death]

We've made changes to our image compression as well as flushed every single layer of caching we had. If this issue persists please let me know. @Kobani @GamingHQ

[GamingHQ]

What about a CDN network? It's a bit of recoding, but it would improve the access to the website big time. for everyone around the globe. 

Then you would have all files you call in your script like cdn.codefling.com/uploads/java...........

 

 

[Death]

@Kobani Can you confirm if my above comment has resolved your issues?

[Kobani]

2 hours ago, Death said:

@Kobani Can you confirm if my above comment has resolved your issues?

Hello, no, nothing has changed until yesterday. 
But I found the problem in my case. I wanted to wait until today if the problem occurs again with me before I contact you.
The default settings of the FritzBox 7590 for IPv6 kept breaking the page load for me.
I changed them from:
- Use native IPv4 connection
to:
- Use IPv6 connection with tunnel protocol

Since then it works again without problems.
Maybe this will help those who have the same problem.
Thank you very much for your effort. 

[GamingHQ]

Starting to miss images again here... Please, delete the @#$#@B gifs. Your website memory uses 250+ mbits with all these s^$%$% gifs that everyone places. 

 

[Death]

@GamingHQ I just checked, and the entire plugin's page is 5 MB. Your problem isn't the GIFs lol. We do have new image processing so if you do see some products without an image it's because it's either too large or a bad format.