Title: Image Optimise
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Image Optimise

 *  Resolved [masseyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masseyn/)
 * (@masseyn)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimise/)
 * I have a community site that will rely on speed being good so during my testing
   i am trying to check the site on GTmetrix as i go. I have W3 Total Cache installed
   and cloudflare and this has sped the site up no end but i still have an issue
   with the following results…..
 * Specify image dimensions – F (0) – 51% – Images – High
    Remove query strings 
   from static resources – F (8) – 91% – Content – High Defer parsing of JavaScript–
   F (9) – 67% – JS – High Optimize images – F (21) – 73% – Images – High Serve 
   scaled images – F (43) – 90% – Images – High Optimize the order of styles and
   scripts – C (70) – 94% – CSS/JS – High Use efficient CSS selectors – F (0) – 
   20% – CSS – Low Remove unused CSS – E (59.7) – 63% – CSS – Low
 * A lot of them appear to be image related and i am running EWWW Image Optimize.
   The site is still working but if i can clean these issues up i would feel like
   i have done my best to get the site to its best speed.
 * Just need any advice on these high demand errors….
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/)

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 *  Thread Starter [masseyn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masseyn/)
 * (@masseyn)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimise/#post-3465151)
 * Plugin Status
 * If updated versions are available below, you may need to enable write permission
   on the wp-content/ewww folder to use the automatic installs.
    *Updates are optional,
   but may contain increased optimization or security patches
 * jpegtran: OK version: Independent JPEG Group’s JPEGTRAN, version 9 13-Jan-2013
   
   optipng: OK version: OptiPNG version 0.7.4 gifsicle: OK version: LCDF Gifsicle
   1.68 pngout: OK version: May 30 2012 Graphics libraries (only used for conversion,
   not optimization): GD: OK   Imagemagick ‘convert’: OK safe mode: Off  exec():
   OK  shell_exec(): OK   Only need one of these: finfo: OK  getimagesize(): OK  
   mime_content_type(): OK Debug Info
 * jpegtran path: /home/sites/communitycontact.co.uk/public_html/wp-content/ewww/
   jpegtran
    optipng path: /home/sites/communitycontact.co.uk/public_html/wp-content/
   ewww/optipng gifsicle path: /home/sites/communitycontact.co.uk/public_html/wp-
   content/ewww/gifsicle pngout path: /home/sites/communitycontact.co.uk/public_html/
   wp-content/ewww/pngout-static disabled functions: gifsicle permissions: 0755 
   optipng permissions: 0755 wp-content/ewww permissions: 0755 user: communitycontact.
   co.uk Operating environment: Linux 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 
   15 13:44:51 EDT 2012 x86_64
 *  Plugin Author [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimise/#post-3465208)
 * These three are the ones that are image related, so I took a look myself at your
   site:
 * 1. Specify image dimensions – F (0) – 51% – Images – High
    2. Optimize images–
   F (21) – 73% – Images – High 3. Serve scaled images – F (43) – 90% – Images –
   High
 * Most of the problems are not ones that EWWW IO can take care of automatically
   for you. However, it appears that some of your Ads on the left side are stored
   in the /uploads/ folder which is a good indication that a ‘Bulk Optimize’ (under
   the Media section in the dashboard) will be able to take care of #2 for those
   images.
 * Optimizing the rest will be a bit tricky, but you could upload them to the Media
   Library, and then overwrite the originals in the plugin folders and elsewhere.
   The plugin images will further be complicated by the fact that they will be overwritten
   next time you upgrade that plugin (like the Social Slider images). Your best 
   bet there is to contact the plugin author and ask them to optimize their images.
 * That takes care of #2, which is the only thing this plugin concerns itself with.
   However, I can give some insight into some of the others:
 * #1: again, most of these are related to your ads not having image dimensions 
   set, but it looks like a lot of these may be served by plugins. If they are, 
   you’ll need to contact the plugin authors to see what they can do. If the images
   are ones that you inserted yourself, you can go into the html code and set the
   proper dimensions there, which leads me to the last item…
 * #3: Nearly all of your front page images (left-side ads, center slider ads, the
   blue buttons near the bottom, and even the ‘feature’ images for each article)
   are being viewed at a smaller size than the actual image the browser is downloading.
   As an example, the left-side ads have been edited to 85 pixels, but you’ve told
   the html to render them as 75 pixels, which means everyone who visits your site
   is downloading nearly 25% excess image data on just those images. The blue ones
   at the bottom are worse, and then center ad slider is not scaled properly either.
   This plugin looks like it might help for some of those: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-image-sizes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-image-sizes/)
 * I would suspect that many of the errors under #1 would go away once you took 
   care of #3, so it may not be as daunting as it first appears. If this is all 
   a bit much for you, I could take a look, but I don’t do that kind of work for
   free.

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## Tags

 * [gtmetrix](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gtmetrix/)
 * [optimise](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/optimise/)
 * [speed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/speed/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimise/#post-3465208)
 * Status: resolved