Slideshows take center stage
This just in:
Slideshows at NYTimes.com account for an amazing 10 percent of all traffic to the site, according to its general manager, Vivian Schiller.
Source: MarketWatch, via Lucas Grindley.
Schiller did not provide more specific statistics about the success of the slideshows, according to MarketWatch.
Check out New York Times slideshows.


I believe it. Here at The (Jackson, MS) Clarion-Ledger, galleries consistently are among the most popular pages. We could put a up gallery of anything - football games to Pavarotti - and it will still receive more hits than most of the stories.
October 4, 2007 at 3:29 pmI am trialling the software in order to get it on board at my local daily newspaper, but am having problems.
It just stalls every time I try and load even a couple of jpgs? I realise this is not the place to ask techy questions, but I can see that this is a great journalistic tool, and that more people should be using it!
October 5, 2007 at 6:52 amWhat software are you talking about, Richard?
If your photos are too large, maybe you should resize them. Check the dimensions in Photoshop — 800 x 500 is a decent size online.
October 5, 2007 at 6:01 pmI’m actually surprised. In general, I hate slideshows on news sites. Then again, I’m the impatient type that doesn’t want to click and click and click and click…
October 5, 2007 at 9:10 pmSorry, I made a subconscious assumption that you were talking about Soundslides, which is what I was using.
I tried smaller images, similar to the dimensions you suggest, but still couldn’t get SS to load up the jpgs?
Thanks in advance
October 8, 2007 at 7:42 am@Richard: Then probably it is one of these things causing the problem.
1. You saved the JPGs as “progressive.” Won’t work. Re-save each one.
2. File size of JPGs still too large. Should be in the ballpark of 100 KB or less, each.
3. Too many JPGs — like, 100.
October 8, 2007 at 9:06 am