how many images can be in a gallery?

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  christopherfabbri · Member · Oct 14, 2012 at 11:52 am

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  when I create a page and I insert [ gallery ]
  how many images can I put in that page,
  so the page will load fine on anyone’s computer .
  …such as this page I have over 300+ images in the gallery,
  is that too much for wordpress gallery page to load?
  see pics of me on this page, does all 300+ load for you?
  http://christopherfabbri.wordpress.com/links/2012-california/

  also, does the [ slideshow ] slow the images to load in the gallery?

  Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

  alos, an idea, is there anyway the [ gallery ] code could be different and make the gallery appear in numeral orders in sets o f 20 or so?
  hope this makes sense. thanks again

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  timethief · Member · Oct 14, 2012 at 5:36 pm

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  I don’t believe there is an limit to the number of images we can upload into a gallery. There isn’t a limit stated here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/

  I have over 300+ images in the gallery,
  is that too much for wordpress gallery page to load?

  I don’t think the number of images is a WordPress.com issue at all. I think it’s a common sense issue. Consider the different devices that visitors access your site, consider the different ways they connect (dial-up, DSL, wireless, etc.), consider that we all pay to be online and then ask yourself what the tolerance limits might be.

  see pics of me on this page, does all 300+ load for you?

  I’m sorry but I don’t want to click into any page that has 300 images on it. May I suggest a tool you can use?

  Test the Load Time of a Web Page
  Enter a URL to test the load time of that page, analyze it and find bottlenecks http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/wc8aIiuz/christopherfabbri.wordpress.com/links/2012-california/

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  christopherfabbri · Member · Oct 14, 2012 at 5:45 pm

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  the page seems to load all 300 + images, in under 30 seconds.
  thanks for that link.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 14, 2012 at 5:47 pm

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  I thought you’d be impressed. :)

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  christopherfabbri · Member · Oct 14, 2012 at 5:54 pm

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  timet.
  your help is nice.
  another question..

  do you think the size of the thumbnails may load the full page quicker?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 14, 2012 at 6:00 pm

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  I don’t know but 38 seconds is lightning quick.

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  christopherfabbri · Member · Oct 15, 2012 at 1:54 pm

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  yes, well each image is under 1000 width and my thumbnails are under 100 width and I don’t put text under the pics, also I thinned out my widget area, so I am thinking these reductions on the page itself , may help the page load faster.
  Yet I do have Cable wireless and it’s the fastest , or almost at the highest speed possible. What I would like is if someone could click into that page with 300 + images with dial up or with a DSL and let me know the loading time.

  I obviously could take out images of the gallery. Yet it would be nice if we had a [ gallery ] code that could separate the gallery into parts, or 1-20, 20-40, etc.

  I hope this gallery idea comes into play, it would help us who would like to show lots of pics in one gallery, Thanks
  chris