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Buggy Product Gallery
7 replies · Started by Georgi on April 13, 2022
Hello,
After switching to GP I noticed some issues with how the product gallery works on mobile. Particularly:
- tapping images sometimes doesn't open them
- switching between them with the finger feels laggy, the switch stransition isn't smooth, like there is something in its patht.
Added a screen recording in the private area to see.
Hi Georgi,
This feature in your WooCommerce product page isn’t controlled by GP and there’s no code in GP that should affect that.
Upon testing, I found that this specific page you linked is barely passing/failing on multiple aspects in Core Vitals: https://share.getcloudapp.com/o0uR9WOK
For instance, it says that there is a render blocking JS coming from a WooCommerce add on Plugin you have. Image sizes are also causing issues.
Basically, the overall performance of your site on mobile most probably is causing this issue. Kindly test your website and see which steps you can take to improve it: https://pagespeed.web.dev/
First, try disabling other non-gp plugins and see if your site improves. Then check one by one which plugin would cause the slowdown/“buggyness”.
Moreover, using image optimizations plugins and better setup caching plugin might help as well.
Hope this clarifies. :)
Hi Fernando,
I disabled all plugins except GP Premium and WooCommerce and nothing change about this issue.
I'm using LiteSpeedCache plugin. The images are optimized, I don't know why Google shows it as a problem, probably because they have are a big size even after optimization. Don't know what I can do more here.
Thanks for the tips.
Georgi
You’re welcome Georgi! web.dev should have recommendations on how to address specific issues. For instance: https://web.dev/tbt/#how-to-improve-tbt
Feel free to reach out anytime you’ll need assistance with anything else. :)
Hi Fernando,
I did some tests of product pages and noticed the following - the CSS of the plugin WP Show Posts loads - https://prnt.sc/xlHgI7-7qQVv
Is this normal?
Hi there,
yes, that is normal, WP Show Posts has a base CSS ( which you see there ) that is loaded with the plugin. And then the rest of its CSS is loaded inline on the pages displaying the lists.
Its 1.5kb minified and would be cached by browser on initial load. I doubt that is going to make any difference to your sites performance.
I see! Thank you, David!
As general rule - Woocommerce is a bit of a performance hog. And if you're testing a staging server you may find that servers performance is also throttled. So you may not see the best results.
Apart from Woo - the most common performance hog i see is Google Fonts, loading them locally can make huge improvements.
Glad to be of help
