Apologies for this interruption but my images have been loading way too slowly for my liking lately so I thought I’d do a little test comparing load times from a flickr direct as opposed to my own ftp direct ~ which is how I normally do it. I’m thinking flickr is going to be faster because the photos are technically already loaded to the internet making them pre-cached …or so I think. Let’s see .. .
These are our dogs …LeRoy the French Bulldog and Bebop the Pug
1* directed from flickr
![leroy-bebop-april-fools, pug and french bulldog](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2145/2381368462_44cb92449b_o.jpg)
2* directed from my own ftp {nice balls!}
![](https://www.besmartbegreen.com/leroy-french-bulldog.jpg)
3* directed from flickr
![bebop-pug-patio-march08](https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/2380128189_e2b4e20339_o.jpg)
2* directed from my own ftp
![](https://www.besmartbegreen.com/bebop-pug.jpg)
I’m guessing this is why people leave blogger and go to other blogging platforms. It’s kind of a pain to have to resize the images from flickr but blogger is taking FAR TOO LONG to load my own ftp images. However, I like blogger better than many platforms for numerous reasons.
… thoughts?