Multiple image Requests

  • Resolved negapo

    (@negapo)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    My installation is WordPress 5.3.2, Woocommerce 3.8.1, StoreFront 2.5.3, no other plug-ins. I have created one variable product with one image. When my browser hits the product page it asks for three images:

    • Body-Renda-Grega-Manga-Comprida-Capa.jpg
    • Body-Renda-Grega-Manga-Comprida-Capa-416×312.jpg
    • Body-Renda-Grega-Manga-Comprida-Capa-324×324.jpg

      • This seems highly inefficient, they are the same image, why not just download the larger one and then re-scale it using css for the two thumbnails? I cant get around this, my live site has thousands of images and this translates to many thousand of unneeded thumbnails created and a lot of http requests and bandwidth, am i missing something here, is this really necessary? Thanks for the help

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  • Thread Starter negapo

    (@negapo)

    This seems to be utterly important for the plug-in, to be efficient in the way it handles images. Speed is crucial to convert visitors into costumers and the most common bottleneck in an eCommerce site is the amount images and its size. Tripling the amount of requests an in this case almost doubling the size of data to be transferred with no gain at all doesn’t seem right.

    Mike W

    (@nixiack8)

    Hi there,

    Are you still needing assistance with this? This document here is a walkthrough of how WooCommerce processes images:

    https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/image-sizes-theme-developers/

    This is normal regardless of the theme. If you have further questions please let us know!

    Mike W

    (@nixiack8)

    Hi there,

    I am going to close this thread for now as we have not heard back from you.

    Please reply to this thread to re-open it if you are still experiencing the issue, and open a new thread if you have other questions!

    Take care!

    Thread Starter negapo

    (@negapo)

    I really appreciate the help Mike,

    Something is missing in my reasoning, i have read the link you sent, it explains how to override the image sizes and the three image types that woo uses:

    • woocommerce_thumbnail
      woocommerce_single
      woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail

      • But why on earth is Woo getting this three images on a simple product page with one image?

      I have create a single product with one image:

      It downloads three images:

    • BabyGrow-Malmo-Pintas-Azul-Claro-Frente-416×416.jpg
      BabyGrow-Malmo-Pintas-Azul-Claro-Frente-324×324.jpg
      BabyGrow-Malmo-Pintas-Azul-Claro-Frente-scaled.jpg

      • Why is this needed, why not just grab the larger one “BabyGrow-Malmo-Pintas-Azul-Claro-Frente-scaled.jpg”, and then scaling it for the thumbnail. If you have a Variable Product with two or three attributes, each one with a photo, we are talking about 200 http requests and a lot of unneeded bandwidth.

      Can you please help me out understanding this? Thanks

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