Image resize and GT Metrix

  • Hello there,

    GT Metrix says my site is slow, and I got an F for “optimize images.” So I started deleting the images GI Metrix said could be reduced in size, made them a lot smaller and then uploaded them again. For example,

    I deleted ImageA.jpg, which was 1200 x 800 with resolution 300, and replaced it with ImageA-2.jpg, which is now 900 x 600 with resolution 72, 90kb (before ulopad). And since many of them identified by GT Mettix were the ones I used as thumbnails, I reduced those to 300 x 300…about 30kb in file size.

    After I replaced a dozen images I ran GT Metrix again. ImageA-2.jpg is still considered the one that needs optimization. So here are my questions:

    1) Is a image 900×600 with resolution 72, about 90kb still too big?
    2) Do images on website require very specific kind of optimization which I am not aware of? Just reducing the size is not enough?

    Just FYI, I just changed media setting>file sizes to zero because the images had been radically shrunk when I uploaded them, which was making them look awfully small and poor quality. (This is not in relation to GT metrix issue above)

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    So, first of all, please understand that speed tests are not a game you need to win. ??

    You can _always_ make an image smaller, thus increasing your “score,” but at what cost?

    900×600 is pretty small for an image these days when folks want to see gorgeous full-resolution shots.

    Per https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.interactiongreen.com/Q2vSllLI your page load time is 5.2 seconds, and that’s just fine for an image-heavy site like yours.

    Thread Starter mf01

    (@mf01)

    Oh okay, thank you. I was losing organic traffic significantly lately, and was trying to find out what was going on.
    According to Google search console Core Web Vitals , all my pages are “poor” – none are “good” for mobile, and 50% are poor for desktop (one day zero pages are good, and the next day 50% are good. Fluctuates every day). So I thought there was something fundamentally wrong with my webiste, and tried to use GT Metrix for clues. But according to what you wrote, maybe my website is okay? (I mean I don’t want to sacrifice the quality of images)

    Thank you!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Yeah, folks definitely won’t leave a site over a 5-second load time.

    Just keep focusing on good quality content.

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