Title: Optimizing Thumbnails
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Optimizing Thumbnails

 *  Resolved [bsylee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bsylee/)
 * (@bsylee)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-thumbnails/)
 * 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://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/)

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 *  Plugin Author [ShortPixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shortpixel/)
 * (@shortpixel)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-thumbnails/#post-6351927)
 * 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](https://shortpixel.com/contact)
   and I’ll be happy to optimize these for you free of charge 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [bsylee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bsylee/)
 * (@bsylee)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-thumbnails/#post-6352009)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shortpixel/)
 * (@shortpixel)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-thumbnails/#post-6352024)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shortpixel/)
 * (@shortpixel)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimizing-thumbnails/#post-6352059)
 * I’ll close this ticket, please let me know over email if you need further assistance.
 * Thank you,
    Alex

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