获取缩略图时降低网页的整体下载速度......怎么样？

Question

I am fetching many thumbnails in my application from a database/remote server and loading these in a list View (ul). When there are, around, 100 thumbnails, the overall dowload speed of the webpage is reasonable, but when i am fetching around 250 + thumbnails, the overall download speed is noticeable slower...

I know that I could use pagination, but in my case, that is not an option...

The total number of thumbnails I will end up fetching is around 500... It will not get higher...

My question is the following:
Is there a way I could speed up the fetching of thumbnails in my application? I heard about maybe caching the thumbnails in a file and then calling that file... is that the best solution? if yes, can somebody guide me on that issue...

Any hints? Thank you in advance.

Marco

EDITED

what about using something that i've read... something similar to the following method:

$cache = 'cache/thumbnails.cache.php';

if (!file_exists($cache)) { // check also for the expiration date

   echo "this is a cached copy... <br />";
   include($cache);

} else

   // start the output buffer
   ob_start();

   // INSERT php script to show thumbnails...

    $fh = fopen($cache, 'w+') or die ('Error...');
    fwrite($fh, ob_get_contents());
    fclose($fh);

    // send the output to the browser
    ob_end_flush();

}

is that a recommended method?

Answer 1

Load the thumbnails as the user scroll down the page. Make the page dynamic, when the user is next to the bottom, you load more 4 rows of thumbnails for example.

The way you're doing you're probably using a lot of unnecessary bandwith of the other server, as the user may not look the latest thumbnails at the bottom of the page.