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  • May 5, 2016 at 3:20 am #184959

    Brett Hemphill
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    WP 4.5.1 GD 1.6 PHP 5.6
    I have my site live at http://scubadivingmelbourne.com , thanks to the support team for all the help.

    I notice the site is not using re-sized and compressed thumbnails for the thumbnails for both the listings and details pages and consequently Google Page Speed is not happy as my images are over 100K.

    Any suggestions welcome

    May 5, 2016 at 6:10 am #184969

    Kor
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    Hi Brett,

    Thanks for reaching us. I don’t think our plugin is capable of optimizing the image sizes. Have you checked out some of these plugins that might help you out?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/

    Also, please make sure that you’re not using any of these plugins listed in this page https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/known-issues/

    Furthermore, grab a copy of this plugin created by us to speed up your Website https://wpgeodirectory.com/downloads/gd-booster/

    Let us know how it goes or if it helps.

    Thanks!

    May 5, 2016 at 7:27 am #184984

    Brett Hemphill
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    I have installed GD Booster.

    The other plugins do not address the issue. A thumbnail should output a smaller image. If the original image is 1600×1200 and the thumbnail is 400×300 then it should output that size and also easily achieve a much smaller file size.

    I hope this is in the development plan as I a impressed with GD in general.

    Thx

    May 5, 2016 at 7:40 am #184985

    Guust
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    Make sure you untick “Resize image large size” at GD > design > home tab.
    Thumbnails will not work the listings pages because a visitor can choose different views, all of which have a different size of image size. Pre loading 5 different sizes would not be any better than just resizing on screen. Also, server space is conserved by storing one size only.

    May 5, 2016 at 7:51 am #184987

    Brett Hemphill
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    Hi Guust

    I left “Resize image large size” ticked as I want large images. If unticked the image size was too small.

    In some other systems I have implemented processing of the image at retrieval time, speicified in the URl. This can work fine in a responsive environment even when the view can change, so long as the size works for the Grid 2 view. Suggest 500×375 would be ok for 90+% of applications for thumbnails and native for large files in my case 1600×600 and 1600×1200.

    Maybe it will be in GD one day. I am being a user of GD not a programmer as there are only 20 hours day to play around, thx.

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