Thread:Sitb/@comment-43596541-20200115071032/@comment-499247-20200115115922

Hi BluesDriver,

You're correct that those images do contribute to a portion of slow load times on the collection pages. However, a significant part of the "slowness" in those collection articles also can be attributed to the sheer size of that page. This is evident when opening the page in source editor mode, where there is still a notable delay when typing in code. Since the images aren't loaded onto the page when you're editing its code (but it is still slow to respond), we can deduce that there's something else that is significantly impacting load times for those pages. This is why I have suggested the collections content be split into individual articles (or a series of smaller, related articles) in this thread.

Converting those currently-displayed images in the collection articles into links to the images themselves, as you've described above, would theoretically improve load times a bit. However, it would not solve the problem entirely. Again, the main problem is with the size of the page. - Sitb ( Message wall / Talk page )  11:59, January 15, 2020 (UTC)