# Avoiding slow app due to users image uploads
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [May 4, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452 "2020-05-04T14:33:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452/1 "2020-05-04T14:33:13Z")
How are you avoiding a slow app due to large images that the user uploads?
I believe that a lot of people would just use the phone camera to capture the images and these images can get quite big.
I would like to keep the app responding fast.
Do you encourage people to size down the image before uploading?
Any thoughts?
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### Author:  [@david](https://community.glideapps.com/u/david)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452/2 "2020-05-04T15:07:32Z")
We optimize all images before they are downloaded, you don’t have to worry about it.
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452/3 "2020-05-04T15:13:13Z")
@david that only applies to images uploaded by the upload functionality in glide, right?
If we let people upload images by a google form and store the images in google drive would you also compress the images when loaded from google drive? I would think not as I have tried to have large images in google drive and the app became very slow
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### Author:  [@MaxB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaxB)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452/4 "2020-11-18T13:53:14Z")
I’m interested in this too, I’m interested in the space that uploaded pictures occupy in the storage, I just checked and there is no compression, which I’d like to have, or at least decide if to have it or not
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452/5 "2020-11-18T17:22:07Z")
You could upload to cloudinary but the upload process is a bit cumbersome
> [@Upload image to Cloudinary from within Glide](https://community.glideapps.com/t/upload-image-to-cloudinary-from-within-glide/11204):
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> Cloudinary as image store for uploaded images URL [https://uploadtocloudinary.glideapp.io/](https://uploadtocloudinary.glideapp.io/) The app is copyable The app is using my personal Cloudinary account - so please keep uploads in the app low - and use your own Cloudinary account if you are going to do exploration of cloudinary Background Glide has an image upload functionality where the images are uploaded to Glide. Unfortunatly, these images are out of control from us as app developers. This means that we cannot delete…
> [@Upload multiple images to Cloudinary](https://community.glideapps.com/t/upload-multiple-images-to-cloudinary/13524):
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> Intro I thought I was going to publish my first app in the Template store but external sources like Cloudinary integration are not allowed in a template. So after hours spend you will instead see the app here. Upload multiple images to Cloudinary Try out version: URL: [https://multiupload.glideapp.io/](https://multiupload.glideapp.io/) The app is using my personal Cloudinary account - so please keep uploads in the app low - and use your own Cloudinary account if you are going to do exploration of cloudinary Backg…
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### Author:  [@MaxB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaxB)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452/6 "2020-11-18T17:25:59Z")
Yes, I just checked your project, very well done indeed but very time comsuming.
I wanted in fact ask you if the pictures urls you get from cloudinary can be saved in google sheets and used in the glide app
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### Author:  [@Krivo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Krivo)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452/7 "2020-11-18T17:40:14Z")
@MaxB I use the cloudinary url and store them in google sheet.
I expect you want the user to upload images through the image picker, right ?
If you yourself just wants a place to store images then you can just upload all of them to cloudinary and then decide how the compression should be when it is used by your glide app
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### Author:  [@MaxB](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MaxB)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avoiding-slow-app-due-to-users-image-uploads/8452/8 "2020-11-18T17:42:02Z")
Yes, the user uploads its own pictures, which are too heavy for load times and storage space since glide doens’t compress them