Optimizing images for web use is a very important part of creating a website. Not only will you save a lot of space on the disk storage of the web server, but your site visitors will not download unnecessary quantities of data-intensive images in full quality.
EWWW Image Optimizer
For years I’ve used the WP Smush plugin on all my WordPress sites . Its downside is that it sends images to a remote server for optimization and has a lot of limits, including a maximum image size (5MB). I can’t say that this plugin is bad – the very good rating of the plugin in taiwan phone number data the WordPress repository speaks for itself. But there are a huge number of plugins for image optimization.
I recently came across a plugin called EWWW Image Optimizer that has a similar amount of downloads and a similar rating.
Setting up this plugin is much easier, and a small advantage. All optimizations take place directly on your web server.
Plugin installation
Install the plugin and activate it. After activation, the installation screen opens, where you choose to use the plugin in the first step. I chose ” Save storage space ” and in the second group of boxes ” Stick with free mode for now “. Confirm this step by clicking the Next button .
In the second setting step, you choose options for working with images. I will go through the individual setting options with you:
Lazy Load – activates the download of images only when the user scrolls to the place where the image should be displayed. This feature will noticeably speed up the site, but if you want to use it, please thoroughly test your site to make sure everything is working fine. In the vast majority of cases, this will be the case.
WebP Conversion – whether images should be how does it work? converted to WEBP format. I recommend leaving it off.
Max Width and Max Height – if you upload a high resolution photo from your phone or camera, it’s mostly useless for web use. What this plugin does is automatically shrink the photo to the specified dimensions after uploading. The original high-resolution photo will by lists therefore be as large as you specify. The recommended resolution is 1920×1920, which is sufficient.
Embedded Help – enables loading of help from an external server.