Title: Really?
Last modified: September 3, 2016

---

# Really?

 *  [neuroticartist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neuroticartist/)
 * (@neuroticartist)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-7/)
 * Using this actually INCREASED my page load times. When I removed it and uninstalled
   it I will still stuck with higher page load times, I should have never even installed
   it. I asked a tech a WPMUDEV who said that he uses it constantly and it doesn’t
   effect his page load times either way., so why use it? I dont get this plugin
   and Im a little aggravated that I lost a fair amount of my page load speed by
   having it on my site in the first place.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

 *  Plugin Author [Kye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmax21/)
 * (@gmax21)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-7/#post-7968357)
 * Hey there.
 * Sorry to hear about your issues.
 * > I asked a tech a WPMUDEV who said that he uses it constantly and it doesn’t
   > effect his page load times either way., so why use it?
 * This was the ticket:
 * [https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/so-when-using-wp-smush-pro-on-a-site-and-testing-the-speed](https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/so-when-using-wp-smush-pro-on-a-site-and-testing-the-speed)
 * Patrick was referring to how the plugin code affects your site load time when
   active vs deactive. He wasn’t referring to how optimising your image size can
   help load times on your site.
 * This plugin doesn’t optimise your site, it optimizes your images, the ones you
   use in posts, and in the media library. Smaller images means the site should 
   load quicker.
 * That said, I had another user report a similar issue. Although I, like Patrick,
   was unable to recreate the issue of slowing my site down. We are looking into
   this matter further to ensure there isn’t something we missed.
 * On DEV you mentioned:
 * > I ran a p3 test And it tells me that Gantry Frameworks is whats really slowing
   > me down but that still doesn’t explain why Smush would actually increase my
   > download speed.
 * Just out of interest, what happened with that disabled? And then what was the
   difference (from no Gantry) if you deactivated Smush (no Gantry + no Smush).
 * Would it be possible for you to please include screenshots showing those stats?
 * And finally, would you be willing to do a time to first byte test whilst active,
   and whilst deactivate, and then share the link for both results so I can see 
   the stats:
 * [http://www.webpagetest.org/](http://www.webpagetest.org/)
 * If you can, that would be fantastic. It will enable us to look into this matter
   further.
 * Have a great weekend.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘Really?’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/wp-smushit/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=3447113)
 * [Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-smushit/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-smushit/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-smushit/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-smushit/reviews/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Kye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmax21/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-7/#post-7968357)