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  justinebumper · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 8:12 pm

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  http://www.justinebumpersphotography.com is taking forever to load on all browsers. I have tried Safari, Firefox and Chrome. Im not sure what to do here, please please help me!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justinebumper · Member · Oct 28, 2013 at 8:21 pm

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  Yes, I have read other threads explaining the whole cookies thing and such, I really just need a step by step explanation. I am paying for this, and I have some upcoming jobs and would like them to be able to view my work quickly.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 29, 2013 at 12:02 pm

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  Hi there,

  Your site is taking a while to load because there are a lot of images being loaded on the front page and those images are very large. Even though the image size on the screen is small, it is loading the full size of the image file in the browser.

  For example, the first image in the top left is shown at 562 x 461 pixels, but the image file being loaded in the browser is 5700 x 3900 pixels. Given the number of images on the page, it takes a while to load all of them.

  One way to reduce the load time is to resize your images before posting them on your blog. You can do that with a desktop image editing program or after uploading them to WordPress.com: Image Editing

  Please let me know if I can provide any further help with that. :)

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  justinebumper · Member · Oct 29, 2013 at 4:58 pm

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  Thank you so much, resizing my images now. I didn’t even realize how big my files were.

  Have a good one!

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  justinebumper · Member · Oct 29, 2013 at 5:18 pm

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  So, I resized my images in my media library, does this still not change the size of the images already posted on my page? So this means I have to delete and repost all of the images?

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 29, 2013 at 6:54 pm

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  Hi there,

  I took a look at your blog, and it loaded right away for me with no problems. Can you try refreshing the page and see if it works better for you now? You may also need toclear your browser’s cache to force it to refresh.

  Please let me know if you have any more trouble with the blog loading slowly, and I’ll take another look! :)

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  justinebumper · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 1:31 am

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  Hey,

  After sending you that message, I realized I could just delete all of my posts and re-post them with the resized images. Thanks a bunch !