Bandwidth Question

  • Resolved SkillsUSA

    (@skillsusa)


    4 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve been using this plugin to feature albums from our Flickr account. Up until yesterday, I was using a slideshow on our home page to highlight some recent events. I’ve noticed an uptick in our bandwidth usage each month since I’ve been doing this.

    Does this plugin pull the photos in full resolution from Flickr? Will I be able to decrease our usage by having the gallery set to a fixed number of images instead of scrolling through all of the images in our album?

    Thanks for any insights you can provide.

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  • Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    Does this plugin pull the photos in full resolution from Flickr? Will I be able to decrease our usage by having the gallery set to a fixed number of images instead of scrolling through all of the images in our album?

    Actually Photonic doesn’t pull any images of any size! Literally all that happens is that Photonic does a web-service call to figure out what your images are. The net data transfer in the web-service calls is plain-text, which is a few KB at the most (very much less than the data in a single image).

    After Photonic figures out what the images are, it builds out its markup for display to the end-user. And only when the markup is presented to the end user is the photo displayed in the user’s browser … and this bypasses your server completely and hits Flickr directly. In a way your site is hot-linking to Flickr photos using Flickr’s APIs.

    So, regardless of your image size, Photonic will never spike bandwidth usage.

    Thread Starter SkillsUSA

    (@skillsusa)

    Thank you!

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