Slows my website down

  • Resolved mancat

    (@mancat)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    I installed the GT Metrix plugin on one of my websites and tested my URL speed and then immediately afterwards installed the Ewww plugin and retested my URL speed. My page load time had increased by about 1 second and both my page speed and Yslow speed score had reduced after installing the Ewww plugin and running the basic image compression.

    I was thinking of upgrading to the cloud version of Ewww to get better image compression results but if the plugin will slow my site down it makes more sense to manually compress images using jpegmini.com.

    I was looking at Ewww to increase my page speed but it seems to have had the opposite effect?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/

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  • Plugin Author Shane Bishop

    (@nosilver4u)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    The only way that is possible is if your site is generating images on page load and not caching them to disk. That’s a horrible practice, but some plugins and themes still do it (or they think they are caching images, but they are not). Check the optimize images table on the Bulk Optimize page for clues as to which images it might be doing that to.

    You could also turn on debugging for EWWW, and look in the debug.log file in the plugin folder if you still can’t track it down.

    Without something generating images, EWWW never loads more than a couple lines of code on the front-end of your website (mere microseconds of cpu time).

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