jinspin

hi
thank you for very detailed and helpful reply. The blog posts are indeed fast coming up.

I had talked to tech support for my web host and they did 2 things which maybe sped things up. They created real cron job instead of virtual cron job in wordpress and they had me disable heartbeat within wp rocket plugin. The caching of posts also probably helped.
https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/installable-applications/optimization-and-configuration/wordpress2/configuring-a-cron-job-for-wordpress/

I did not notice there were still some blog posts using photonic that were coming up very slow and even timing out especially older blog posts on page 8 or further. I think they are are not cached yet for some reason. I can tell when blog post will be very slow when it takes more than 2 seconds to come up.

Next time I edit blog post I will disable WP rocket beforehand to see if that is what spiked CPU.

I didn’t want to use JS mode because I read that PHP mode is SEO friendly and helps search engine crawl and detect the photos on posts as the whole page is rendered and sent to browser.
If I did use JS mode then search engine crawlers will not be able to see the photos on my posts so it would not help with SEO correct? You are saying photos are not going to be much help for SEO anyways because they have same redundant alt tags? I really want my images to be seen by search engines to help with SEO ranking so this is dilemma.

Any other settings I can change to speed up photonic besides switching to JS mode?

i will remove those 2 lines js baguette from wp rocket.

Ok I emailed smugmug if there is anything they can do about filenames.

I noticed that on smugmug website when you click on image in album to see it full screen and check html – it does reference real file name. So I don’t know if API allows access to that.

<meta property="og:image" content="https://photos.smugmug.com/Events-2022/Madison-Living-Madison-Pool/i-x2q4KHj/0/0fdd57db/XL/madison-community-pool-nj-staff-2-XL.jpg"/>

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

So sadly you are saying photonic is not SEO friendly with smugmug because smugmug uses cryptic filenames. Photonic works well but this a big hit.

ok. Thanks for quick reply