Listing Slider – full sized images?

The slider images are the Detail page hero images.

They’re 1400x something.

Say the home page slider has 5 featured places.

You’re saying it won’t slow down significantly with 5 200KB images? Or you’re saying those 5 place hero images should clock in as 200kb when size is added all together?

Sorry, I didn’t quite understand.

I know the Listings on the Home page can be finessed to different sizes. Thought there was something like that in the Slider?

Thanks for that very good suggestion! DEFINITELY have to do something about those HUGE images. On single place Detail page didn’t seem SOOOO huge and (thus slowing)!

BTW, the slider I am using is gd > listing slider in Appearance > Widgets.

Not certain if this is GeoDirectory- or Supreme theme-related.

Since GeoDirectory plugin does already tweak image sizes for the Listing section (i.e., where lots of places appear with smaller images on search) thought that same finessing could be done for images in the GD > Listing Slider, too.

Maybe this is Supreme-theme related instead of actual plugin-related?

To my knowledge, the GD > Listing Slider does NOT have any lazy load capacity…was a little nervous I’d introduce a problem with AutoOptimize and SuperCache if I threw another plugin into the mix. There certainly are Lazy Load Image plugins out there, though.

The Listing Section image sizing tweaks are in the Geodirectory > Design > Listing section.

BTW, seems like GeoDirectory itself lazy loads in the listings? Is this accurate? Seem to appear as I page down the page.

I am still confused. This is on our home page: https://thechristianbusinessdirectory.online.

In the body of the page are multiple listings with images — in Geodirectory, have set the images as 300×300 and these small images load faster and “obey” me. Great idea.

In the Supreme footer — which is 4 distinct segments — I have put a slider in the second segment.

That means this listing slider takes up 25% of the width of the page. BUT…each of these slider images appear to be the SAME size as the default featured image shown at the top of the Details page…i.e., they’re HERO-IMAGE size — big!

It seems to me there should be a setting to give a choice of image size for the slider…just as there is in Geodirectory>Design>Listing to use the 300×300 size or whatever.

Otherwise, in this 25% width spot, if I choose to have 5 “sliding images” — i have to load 5 HERO-SIZED feature images. It doesn’t make sense to me.

Could you explain further?

Thank you.
Would think people might be using in sidebars — which would also be a fraction of the page.
Utility already (I would think) assessed via the different sizes of images in Listings ( Geodirectory>Design>Listing) so wouldn’t require HUGE rewrite.

Would load lots faster!

Thanks again.