Compressing @2x images

  • Resolved mhdskr

    (@mhdskr)


    7 years ago

    Hello Jordy,

    I’ve been trying for days now to compress the @2x images to no avail. I tried your recommend plugin, the lossless EWWW Image Optimizer, and a lossy one, Compress JPEG & PNG images By TinyPNG. Both claim to be compatible with your plugin yet Google’s PageSpeed still say that all my @2x images are not optimized. Can you please help find the culprit?
    My website is: http://www.phonefinity.net

    Thank you,

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  • Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    7 years ago

    Hi,

    That’s because images are twice as what they should theoretically be. And PageSpeed is only about theory. Don’t spend too much time on PageSpeed and other performance results website, ask people to try your website. Is it pretty enough? Is it fast enough? That’s what actually matters. Purely technical SEO doesn’t affect websites, except if it’s a huge issue like similar pages/websites. Websites weight cannot be objectively analyzed.

    Thread Starter mhdskr

    (@mhdskr)

    7 years ago

    I’m not sure what you mean by the images being “twice as what they should theoretically be”. you can have a photography site serving 6000x4000px images and get a high score on PageSpeed as long as they are compressed. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that the resolution is not the issue, its compression is what affects the score.
    I’m satisfied with the speed of my site, but I must take PageSpeed Insights into consideration because of their effect on search engine rankings. I’m getting 52/100 and 74/100 scores for mobile and desktop, respectively. Disabling the WP Retina 2x bumps my score to 95 and 96! As you can see the difference is huge. Just to be clear, I know the problem is not in the plugin. I’m trying to figure out how to convince google that my 2x images are compressed.

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    7 years ago

    If you placeholder (div) is a certain size, retina will be double. PageSpeed will “not like it”, I am pretty sure of this. If those performance website were taking in account retina images, they would definitely mention about them somewhere, but they don’t.

    Yeah the problem would be the optimization plugin that seems not working with Retina on your install, but normally they do. EWW has been always very careful about this, and a few days ago ShortPixel Image Optimizer made sure it works with all my plugins (Retina and WP/LR Sync) so you could give it a try.

    Best would be to download a retina image, and try to optimize it by yourself to see if you can get the same results as PageSpeed?

    Thread Starter mhdskr

    (@mhdskr)

    7 years ago

    I needed a lossy compression tools. EWWW does lossless in the free version. ShortPixel limits one to 100 credit for the free plan which can kinna worked, but I can’t be for sure coz I couldn’t optimize everything. If you can recommend a plugin that does Lossy for free it would be great. Thanks a lot.

    ShortPixel

    (@shortpixel)

    7 years ago

    Hi,
    how many images you need optimized?

    Please contact me here, maybe we can work something out 🙂
    http://shortpixel.com/contact

    Best regards,
    Alex

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