Browsing Media Gallery is very slow

Can confirm.. Same issue.

We haven’t seen this reported before.

Please do some performance analysis server side to see where the bottleneck is, would love to see what you find.

I’ve experienced the same thing, though I have noticed it’s slightly improved when using the list view for the media library. I’m going to try and figure out where the slow-down is, but it’s very much after the page has loaded and whilst loading the media library content.

Would be interested in hearing if any of you have plugins installed that may handle image optimization or dynamic cropping?

If so, what happens if you deactivate those plugins, does the problem go away?

If both the smush plugin and the S3 offload plugin are enabled, the loading time of the ajax request of the media gallery will be double of only enabling S3 offload plugin.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by tgijasonyip.

Be careful to use an up to date version of Smush, older versions are incompatible with WP Offload Media Lite 2.3+.

Otherwise, please check what actions Smush is doing when viewing the Media Library, that will likely give you a clue as to where the problem is.

What I meant was that using the offload plugin without the smush plugin already led to the slow media gallery loading issue. Enabling the smush plugin just make it become much slower.

I got a new finding. I found that the long response time of the media gallery issue only happen when the WPML plugin is activated. Unfortunately, I didn’t find the root cause of it yet.