What’s been concerning me for a long while now is the increasing amount of Street Views not loading throughout the site, which obviously denies readers the chance to see the location in question and makes various parts of the site look broken. I can only put this down to an increase in Street Views within each web page which subsequently increases the amount of calls the webpage is making to Google’s servers. This then causes a problem in that some views completely refuse to load.
Google has a solution however – it has the ability to provide a static image of the location in question instead of embedding a movable Street View pane. This obviously means that the Street View location in the website is not movable, however there are two advantages:
- The reliability of the Street View image loading is greatly increased
- The speed of the webpage loading is greatly increased
By adding these Street Views as images, they can also be made to be clickable objects, so that if the image is clicked, it’ll open the actual movable Street View in a separate browser window or tab.
An example of my testing is here.
I am looking forward to making this improvement, but it will take some time to go through the whole site and change all the Street View links unfortunately. I just hope all page elements load and there are no more missing views.
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