Too much time to load the story map application

[RicardoGarnica_Peña]

Hi. I have a problem. I shared my Story Map but this takes too long to load the application . What is the problem? Can it be because it contains more than 30 photographs?

This is my Story Map link:

http://arcg.is/1THU3mK

Thank you.

[RupertEssinger · Accepted solution]

The images you are referencing directly via URLs are really large and cause the very slow load speed. For example this one is 4800×2460 resolution and over 6 megabytes.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49204012/StoryMaps/AjuscoXitle.jpg

We'd recommend putting your images into a Flickr album instead and then using that Flickr album to create your story map. When you use the Story Map Tour Import function and point to photos in Flickr, the Story Map Tour will automatically request images from Flickr of the best size for the story, and you'll get better performance. Alternatively you could upload the images into ArcGIS Online and choose the option to make the images smaller, or resize them first yourself to be closer to 1000 x 750 which is a good target size.

[RicardoGarnica_Peña]

Thank you very much Rupert Essinger......