Slow catalog display

Hi David,

I just visited your site and the product catalog page takes maybe two seconds longer than one of the other pages on your site to load. And when I choose a filtering option, it takes, at most, two seconds to load the results. It feels reasonable when I’m surfing your site.

How long is it taking when you visit it?

I noticed that you already have very small images, so there isn’t necessarily that much else you could do to optimize it. That being said, the more filtering options and fields, etc. that you have, the longer it will take to load, because it has to query through them all.

Thank you for your reply.
In fact it’s pretty random … Sometimes it is “very” long (over 10 seconds) sometimes it’s faster. I don’t really have a “homogeneous” behavior.
If you type “Stentz” in the search box, sometimes it puts 2-3 seconds to display the result sometimes, it seems that nothing happens (I have waited 25 seconds)
By removing the filters on customs fields in the left column, I gain speed?

By the way, have you worked on a reset button that would remove all filters in one step?

Thank you for your answers

Yet another question:
is it possible to prefilter the catalog to display only one value from one custom fields?
For example:
Custom Field “Hall” (ID: 11)
Value: “Air”
Objective: To see only the products that are in the “Hall Air”
I tried: [product catalog id = ‘4’ sidebar = ‘Yes’ excluded_layouts =’ List, Detail ‘custom_fields = ’11’]
But that does not filter on “Air”
Thanks again

Hi David,

Thanks for the further information. When you click on a specific option, the AJAX filtering queries through all the custom fields and categories, etc. to make sure that it’s displaying the right results. So, if you have a lot of custom fields, it will inevitably take longer. That doesn’t necessarily explain the variable nature of your load times. Do you have other sites on the same server, and have you ever noticed this type of variable load times from them?

We’ve worked on the clear all button, but haven’t done any testing with it yet, so I couldn’t give a timeline on that right now.

For your second question, it’s definitely possible. You just need to format your shortcode like this:

[product-catalogue id="4" custom_fields="11=Air"]

OK. Thanks a lot.