Title: Quicker bulk optimize
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Quicker bulk optimize

 *  Resolved [TheMediumUTM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themediumutm/)
 * (@themediumutm)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quicker-bulk-optimize/)
 * Please find a way to do a quicker bulk optimize.
 * I know the plugin doesn’t reoptimize images that are already optimized – that’s
   great. But it still seems to check every one (against its table, I guess?) and
   that can take a really, really long time for large media libraries. If I’ve added
   just a few new images to my 900+, and they’re somehow not optimized (e.g. say
   I had EWWW deactivated when they were uploaded), then rather than taking the 
   reasonable minute to do them, I’ll wait an hour while it goes through all the
   old ones!
 * Why not just store a date of last bulk optimize and optimize any images newer
   than that date? (And ignore the date if force reoptimize is checked.) Or something
   like that. EWWW keeps a huge database table; can’t it be used more effectively?
 * Thanks for a wonderful plugin in all other respects! ^_^
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Shane Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quicker-bulk-optimize/#post-5325361)
 * The database lookups are not the cause of the slowness, the ajax is. But that’s
   the only way we manage to keep it running for hours on end. The database lookups
   take mere milliseconds, but each ajax request takes the full round-trip time 
   between you and your server to process. From the list view in the Media Library,
   you can select individual images, or whole pages of images at once and just optimize
   those via the bulk actions drop-down, so I think that would help you out.
 *  Thread Starter [TheMediumUTM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themediumutm/)
 * (@themediumutm)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quicker-bulk-optimize/#post-5325385)
 * Ah, okay. That does help.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quicker-bulk-optimize/#post-5325385)
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