No effect on Google PageSpeed

  • Resolved robaa

    (@robaa)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hi All,

    I recently became aware of my website being very slow to load, and Google’s PageSpeed analysis tells me it’s because the images are in old formats and not efficiently encoded, etc. I installed Smush, which did its thing on 800+ images across the site, and I was hoping for the PageSpeed score to improve markedly as a result. In fact, it became slightly worse (not by much, but certainly no improvement on that front). Any idea what might be the problem here, and what I should do?

    The PageSPeed ‘opportunities’ list has the following two items on the top, together accounting for the vast majority of potential improvements:
    1. Serve images in next-gen formats
    2. Efficiently encode images

    Is Smush not meant to deal with these issues?

    TIA,
    robaa

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  • Plugin Support Imran – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support9)

    Hello @robaa

    I trust you’re doing well!

    The images under the Efficiently encode images recommendation showing only originally uploaded images in the list.

    The Smush lite version only optimizes the thumbnails that are created from the original images. This feature is available on the premium version of the plugin. At the moment, please optimize these images manually.

    For the Serve images in next-gen formats, it can be improved only with the Smush Pro version, by enabling a CDN feature which converts images to WebP format.

    Kind regards,

    Cheers,
    Nastia

    Thread Starter robaa

    (@robaa)

    OK thanks Nastia, I’ll give the Pro version a go and see if it helps.

    Thanks,
    robaa

    Plugin Support Imran – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support9)

    Hello @robaa

    I trust all is well!

    Alright! I’ve marked this ticket as resolved. If you do have any followup questions or require further assistance feel free to reopen it and let us know here.

    Kind regards,
    Nastia

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