Title: image optimization
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# image optimization

 *  [offrandes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/offrandes/)
 * (@offrandes)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-2/)
 * Hello,
    My main image is 1000x1500px : size is 294 Kb
 * the retina image is 466x700px : size is 774 kb
 * How can i optimize this retina image ?
 * Thank you
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/)
 * (@tigroumeow)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-2/#post-5403929)
 * Hello!
 * Sorry, I don’t really understand your question 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [offrandes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/offrandes/)
 * (@offrandes)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-2/#post-5403969)
 * Hi,
    The file created by WP retina 2X is too heavy ( 774Kb) compare to the original
   image (294Kb). it takes too long to load. i would like to know how i can control
   the size of the file generated by WP retina 2x.
 * Sorry. i hope my question is more clear 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/)
 * (@tigroumeow)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-2/#post-5403978)
 * Ah, I see. In the plugin settings you can change the JPG Quality. For advanced
   optimization the plugin cannot do it, is it quite a complex operation and depends
   on people and many settings. There is a plugin that does it very well and I recommend
   it to you: EWWW Image Optimizer.

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 * [size](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/size/)

 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-2/#post-5403978)
 * Status: not resolved