Game Details Page Sometimes Loads Slowly

[Bovive]

I did quite a bit of speed testing with slow and fast systems. The main page that would sometimes load slowly was the game_details page. It occurs when the game has one or more high resolution screenshots. Video and cover did not seem to have much effect. Removing the high resolution screenshots fixed the loading speed.

Some possible solutions:

• It may be that the screenshots need to be loaded later in the page.
• On import from IGDB perhaps they could be resized if they are of a high resolution. Games with 1920x1080 screenshots seem to load ok for me.
• Create thumbnail images when the game metadata is imported and use those thumbnail images for the screenshots on the popup and on the listing of images on game_details. Only show the larger screenshot when that image is clicked on. This would probably be the best option the page doesn't have to resize a bunch of large images. I imagine that is what is slowing this down.

I did attempt to remove all javascript and theme checks and just loaded all of the files directly. I was not able to measure a speed change.

[Bovive]

Resizing the covers or creating thumbnails may also help the library page when a lot of games are resulted. They are resized to 250x351 on the discover page and 287x216 on the library page. The largest cover is 484x363 on the game details page. I'm not sure that covers are affecting performance much. IGDB doesn't have strict size restrictions for covers, it just has to be 3:4 ratio. They recommend 600x800 and I think most are, but they certainly can be larger.