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Hi a quick question is smush pro worth the upgrade does it really make the site faster, or it’s an okay product anyone personally using it
Does Smush Pro really help
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Eholic
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localmoon
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All it does is add some more compression and load the images from a CDN. So unless you have A LOT of images on your site (which are NOT compressed right now), any improvement in loading time will be minimal/unnoticable.
If you have an average amount of images just use shortpixel and make sure you upload properly sized images.
Here, I just saved you €7 p/m
If you have an average amount of images just use shortpixel and make sure you upload properly sized images.
Here, I just saved you €7 p/m
naughtyguy
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I use this on every one of my sites For FREE it does amazig job Robin image optimizer
Rajthepositivelife
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Smush Pro is costly compared to other options.
Try imagify, their initial pack is only 5$ a month for 1 GB, you can use it on multiple sites as well. I am using it, does a good job with compression.
TheGreyMatter
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There are some better alternatives, I've mentioned them here in a guide along with some other steps to speed up your website: https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-how-to-speed-up-your-website-to-load-twice-as-fast-in-30-minutes.1204437/
Index Sites
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I use EWWW image optimizer it does just about everything you could need when it comes to images. Resizing, compressing, converting, webps and etc.
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Thanks guys thing is webp is not supported by the host, and hence I need cdn to serve it, imagify maybe able to convert them but since it doesn’t have cdn I don’t think it can serve them right?
Rajthepositivelife
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I am using a CDN along with imagify. Its working fine in my case.
Although my host supports webp.
They have a free version as well, you can try testing it on a test site to see if it works in your case.
Sushant Pawar
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For this use Flying Images.
I use TinyPNG site and Flying Images. The author of that plugin also made good guides on optimizing speed. Check out: https://wpspeedmatters.com/flying-images-lazy-loading/
Edit: I have also Removed Smush Pro.
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I’ll ask the concerned person to remove smush and try flying images thanks @Sushant Pawar
localmoon
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Are you sure the host doesnt't support webp? Webp needs a PHP extension like Imagick or GD Library enabled to work. Most hosts have this disabled by default, but you can easily enable it by uploading a php.ini file into the root directory (public_html) and add the following line:
Next you need to add the following to your .htaccess file to force it sitewide:
Where 'path to home' is the home path of the domain/user. Next you can install a plugin like 'WebP Converter for Media' to serve the webp images.
Also keep in mind if you are going to use FlyingImages CDN, there is no option to empty the cache in bulk. Instead you need to fill out a form and have to request the removal link by link. So if you want to update lots of images this will take you a few hours, I figured this out the hard way lol.
Code:
extension=imagick.soNext you need to add the following to your .htaccess file to force it sitewide:
Code:
SetEnv PHPRC /pathtohome/url/public_html/php.iniWhere 'path to home' is the home path of the domain/user. Next you can install a plugin like 'WebP Converter for Media' to serve the webp images.
Also keep in mind if you are going to use FlyingImages CDN, there is no option to empty the cache in bulk. Instead you need to fill out a form and have to request the removal link by link. So if you want to update lots of images this will take you a few hours, I figured this out the hard way lol.
OlafRustle
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+1 for shortpixel
Koffein
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Yes, but actually nope.
i got rid of smush and all their tools, because it works, but the site depend a lot of the service, and is perjudicial for yslow and blocked javascript... or maybe i'm just stupid and could not figure how to use it correctly. But using tinypng plugin with the free api key is enough for compress images, and cloudflare with cache rules solved most of my speed problems.
i got rid of smush and all their tools, because it works, but the site depend a lot of the service, and is perjudicial for yslow and blocked javascript... or maybe i'm just stupid and could not figure how to use it correctly. But using tinypng plugin with the free api key is enough for compress images, and cloudflare with cache rules solved most of my speed problems.
