Hi there, I''m creating a little web app that do, among other stuff, a bit of flickr search. The code is like this: VIEW ---- <% form_remote_tag :url => {:action => ''search''}, :update => ''photos'', :complete => visual_effect(:blind_down, ''photos''), :before => %(Element.show(''spinner'')), :success => %(Element.hide(''spinner'')) do %> <%= image_tag ''spinner.gif'', :id => ''spinner'', :style => ''display: none'' %> <fieldset> <label for="tags">Tags</label> <%= text_field_tag ''tags'' %> <%= submit_tag ''Search'' %> </fieldset> <div id="photos" class="flickr_photos" style=''display: none''> </div> <% end %> CONTROLLER ---------- flickr = Flickr.new ''b715a2a59427bb1bbc91683af31877f5'' render :partial => "photo", :collection => flickr.photos(:tags => params[:tags], :licence =>''5'' , :per_page => ''24'', :sort => "interestingness-desc") _PHOTO.RHTML ------------ <a href="<%= photo.sizes[3][''url'']%>"><img class="photo" src="<%photo.sizes[0][''source''] %>"></a> So, it takes about 20 seconds for just showing 24 photos, is it normal? how could I speed this up? What it takes too much time in rendering each picture, but I don''t know how to fix that. This is what the server shows: Rendered collect/_photo (872.5ms) Rendered collect/_photo (1024.3ms) Rendered collect/_photo (968.2ms) Rendered collect/_photo (853.9ms) Rendered collect/_photo (826.3ms) Rendered collect/_photo (926.4ms) Rendered collect/_photo (851.0ms) Rendered collect/_photo (841.1ms) Rendered collect/_photo (855.3ms) Rendered collect/_photo (976.2ms) Rendered collect/_photo (876.9ms) Rendered collect/_photo (840.0ms) Rendered collect/_photo (939.1ms) Rendered collect/_photo (934.9ms) Rendered collect/_photo (836.2ms) Rendered collect/_photo (870.8ms) Rendered collect/_photo (861.1ms) Rendered collect/_photo (850.7ms) Rendered collect/_photo (846.0ms) Rendered collect/_photo (861.6ms) Rendered collect/_photo (848.5ms) Rendered collect/_photo (827.8ms) Rendered collect/_photo (950.1ms) Rendered collect/_photo (893.2ms) Any idea? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.