Optimizing Thumbnails

  • Resolved bsylee

    (@bsylee)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    My site uses thumbnails for our product catalog pages and I was hoping to just optimize those thumbnail images (around 130 images). Is there a way to do this?
    Currently I can only see the options to:
    1. Bulk Optimize which includes ALL of the images and thumbnails (around 10,000 for our site)
    2. Individually optimize from the media library but then our thumbnail files don’t actually show up here.

    In the absence of any solution, would a workaround be to optimize the original images, and THEN force regenerate thumbnails? Would that then give me optimized thumbnails?

    Thanks very much,

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/

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  • Plugin Author ShortPixel

    (@shortpixel)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,
    thank you for your message.

    May I ask you why you’d want to optimize only the thumbnails?

    Currently there is no way to optimize only the thumbnails with our plugin. You can either optimize the original images or the original images & the thumbnails.

    Anyway, as a workaround, if you still want to optimize only the 130 thumbnails then you could contact us directly
    https://shortpixel.com/contact
    and I’ll be happy to optimize these for you free of charge 🙂

    Thread Starter bsylee

    (@bsylee)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for getting back so quickly.
    My understanding might be incorrect but the reason I wanted to optimize just the thumbnails was because we have a particular product page (using woocommerce) that shows our product thumbnails and the load times are very long. PageSpeed Insights recommends us losslessly optimizing the images and so I thought since the thumbnails are the ones showing, then I may as well just update those ones, as opposed to all of our images (9,000-10,000).
    But then my question is does that mean if I regenerate thumbnails later from the original, will the new thumbnails be unoptimized again because it copies over all the meta etc.
    Again, I’m happy to optimize the original images, and THEN force regenerate thumbnails if you think that would work? Would that then give me optimized thumbnails?

    Thanks for your offer, I will contact you through your contact page as well.
    Cheers,

    Plugin Author ShortPixel

    (@shortpixel)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,
    as I wrote you in the email here’s the options I see:
    1) best option is to optimize both the original images and the thumbnails _after_ they’ve been generated. This leads to maximum gains.
    2) second best option is to have the original image optimized and then, from it, (re)generate the thumbnails. They won’t be as small as in the first case but they should be smaller than if they were generated from an unoptimized image.
    3) the not-so-good option would be to have only the thumbnails optimized. If you regenerate them they’ll be not optimized at all so the whole optimization process will be …pointless 🙂

    Plugin Author ShortPixel

    (@shortpixel)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    I’ll close this ticket, please let me know over email if you need further assistance.

    Thank you,
    Alex

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