How to make image uploads fast

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Hi,

I have a classified website based on Wordpress. It is highly customized.
When people upload images along with their ad, its get watermarked, resized into different sizes (thumbnails, single ad page image etc).

When I compared how much time it takes to upload an image with one of my competitors and some other global sites, I realized my site is VERY slow.
Please take a look at this 40 seconds long video. It shows how much time it take to upload a 3.87mb image file to those other sites Im talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prfIb_2S_zw

I have a 2mbps connection and it takes me more than 10 seconds to "download" that file using IDM. As you can in above video, it takes lot less longer to "upload" that file.
I should remind that at the end, image is watermarked with different sized images too.

So what is the secret? How to achieve this result? I don't have huge knowledge in these things. Just point me to some tutorials, guides, resources, anything. I would like to try.

Thanks

Posted 20-May-15 3:02am

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Philippe Mori 20-May-15 20:21pm

Ensure that it is not an antivirus that cause the slowdown. Are you comparing an upload to 2 differents site from the same computer?
Have you tried to upload file differently like using FTP?

Member 11705597 20-May-15 21:49pm

I tried with 2 different computers with 2 internet connections.
Thanks

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