Howdy, viewing photo's on the Dropbox website is painfully slow. Is there a way to get better performance from the Dropbox website when viewing photos? When I use the profiler in Firefox I can see that the previews.dropbox.com takes 3.3 seconds to reply, is this normal? 1Gbit fiber connection, tested with Google Fiber speed Test 64GB RAM 16 Cores Tested with Chrome, Safari, Firefox on Windows, MacOS and Linux (Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro and Debian) Rebooted every machine 7 times, just so I can write this *Not many useful labels in the "choose a label" list

Hi @Megan, @Thijxx Same issue here ... 13k of Photos which are unviewable using the Dropbox website. As already mentioned the Dropbox Website loads the first 50 or so then needs to re-cache or re-index the whole collection again when viewing/scrolling .... Clearing the browser cache makes no difference, the only thing that helps is significantly reducing the number of images stored .... For reference OneDrive and Google Photos Websites work fine with >20k of images, give it a test with some images - its a Dropbox issue.

No offence taken @Thijxx and yes you're correct ... I only mentioned the other issues as I think that they're possibly linked. ... anyhow back to the Photos 😉 @Walter... In case you have only recently added these photos to your account, please wait 24 hours to see if the problem is only transient.My photo collection is months/years old and it make no difference as old and new photos don't display quickly just the place holders are visible. If the problem persists, please check that this isn’t a browser problem, by using a different browser, loading the Dropbox website in an incognito window, and/or disabling any plugins or extensions you may have running on your browse.In an effort to help you to assist us I built a new PC with just the default Windows 11, Service Packs and Edge running incognito installed. It make no difference to the Photo's displaying slowly on your website. In case the above didn't help, please make sure that you don’t have anything blocking your connection to the Dropbox servers such as an antivirus, firewall, security program, proxy or VPN.I haven't any issues with my fibre network plus as noted above I built a separate new machine to test. You could alternatively try a different network as well.@Thijxx has the same problem so this rules out any network issue at my end.... As already mentioned competitor products work fine . @Walter can you explain the difference between the way the iPhone IOS Dropbox app and the Dropbox website views/loads photos.For me the IOS app works perfectly viewing online photos but the website is very poor - Why?

Hi @Megan Now onto the issue at hand here: in regards to the antivirus and firewalls, have you tried the steps on your end? I'm asking since it's a bit unclear.Sorry about that ... I built a new standard Windows 11 PC with the Default Windows Security installed running the Browser Edge in Cognito mode. Nothing else was installed. Just to confirm I disabled the Firewall and Antivirus and this made no difference (screen shot below to prove/confirm) When raising a ticket can you also include @Thijxx as they raised the issue and I joined in as a frustrated end user .... many thanks.

@Thijxx Quick update .... Support have been in contact and its been escalated ... keep you posted

@Thijxx Its still on going .... Colin has asked for some more info which I have passed on ....

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Walter
Dropbox Staff
4 months ago
Hey Thijxx - thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Can you just clarify if you're noticing this on an incognito or private browsing window with no plugins or extensions running as well?

Also, have you tried another network since you first noticed this?

Let me know more and we'll take it from there.
- Thijxx
  Helpful | Level 6
  4 months ago
  Yes I run extensions, I block your Adobe trackers and your Qualtrics "Experience Manager" but when I use private browsing, without the blocker, it is just as slow. First page of photo's takes 7 seconds.
  When switching to a 5G dongle the performance is the same.
  
  Could you tell me what I should expect in terms of performance? Should the photos page load sub-second or is that not fair?
  - Walter
    Dropbox Staff
    4 months ago
    Thanks for the additional information Thijxx
    
    Could you also clarify if this happens only when browsing the Photos page or if it's affecting other folders of yours as well?
Megan
Dropbox Staff
4 months ago
Hey @Thijxx, let me also jump in here!

Yeah pretty much. I'd also like to ask you to clear your browser's cache if that's not too much of a trouble.

You also mentioned this happens only with the "Suggested" pictures, right? Meaning if you try to locate a picture in your account and then preview it, do you notice the same behavior?
- Charlie Windsor
  Helpful | Level 7
  4 months ago
  Hi @Megan, @Thijxx
  Same issue here ... 13k of Photos which are unviewable using the Dropbox website. As already mentioned the Dropbox Website loads the first 50 or so then needs to re-cache or re-index the whole collection again when viewing/scrolling .... Clearing the browser cache makes no difference, the only thing that helps is significantly reducing the number of images stored .... For reference OneDrive and Google Photos Websites work fine with >20k of images, give it a test with some images - its a Dropbox issue.
  - Megan
    Dropbox Staff
    4 months ago
    Hey @Charlie Windsor, thanks for reporting!
    
    Do you think you could send me a couple of screenshots of a step-by-step that you follow on your end?
    
    I'd love to have a visual of this.
    
    Thanks a bunch!