Make Social Media Feather's icons PageSpeed compliant

You can always squeeze images a bit more, but also, you can do it yourself (however, every plugin update, you need to do it again). I used ImgOptim on all image files, and i saved 139,7KB out of 1,3MB with the standard settings (that includes screenshots and so on).

Here is some apps that could help (all of them are free, and i think all of them are Open Source also):

If you use Mac OS X:
Download ImgOptim
https://imageoptim.com/

1. Drag the application to your Applications folder.
2. Launch.
3. Drag all images in the plugin folder (i used a simple search for the plugin folder -> kind: images) to the ImgOptim window.
4. Wait til it’s done (note: the images/icons will not loose any quality).

If you use Windows
(note: i haven’t tested this app since i’m on a Mac. There may be better options.)

Download PNGGauntlet
https://pnggauntlet.com/

1. Install
2. Drag all images in the plugin folder to the PNGGauntlet window.
3. Wait til it’s done (note: the images/icons will not loose any quality).

If you use Linux:
(note: i haven’t tested this app There may be better options.)

Download and install Trimage (GUI app)
https://trimage.org/
Follow the instructions at the website.

On the web:

https://tinypng.com/
https://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/

Moar!
If you want to compress the images/icons even more, you can use apps such as ImageAlpha (OpenSource) + ImgOptim (same developer) on the Mac. If you google around, you will find similar applications for Windows and Linux distros also.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the suggestions.

But I just don’t think that it’s practical to have to do it after every plugin update. That’s why I posted this request.

Regards

I have re-compressed all images in the past release (.12), the savings were minimal though.

Thanks.

I agree that the savings are minimal. But it’s still good to do so because then PageSpeed won’t complain about it, thus allowing developers to focus better on the other problems.

By the way, from the change log, apparently only the large icons got recompressed in the previous release (.12). Perhaps that’s why I am still getting warnings from PageSpeed for the “regular” icons. Could you please recompress the regular icons as well?

If you’re curious, you can see the warnings when running PageSpeed against my website: https://www.tripletremelo.com

Regards

I’d like to voice my agreement with koroikoroi, that optimizing images (or css or javascript) is a good thing for any WP developer to do.

Having a plugin’s components appear upon PageSpeed’s warnings does not inspire my confidence in the author’s work …especially when they claim that their title is “lightweight”.

I have spent many days shopping for suitable plugins that do not impact my PageSpeed score. I’m trying to give Social Media Feather an opportunity on my website before I roll-my-own text-only social links.