Size went up, Google Pagespeed insightts ranking and speed down

  • Resolved kauno

    (@kauno)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    thank you for this plug in. Yesterday I spent whole day and half night going through my media library. I used individual renaming. However, to sum it up shortly;

    -Used default setting, as I did not even realize there was dashboard coz there was no “Settings” text at Installed Plug in page. So I did not enable undo or log’s.

    -My rankings at Google PageSpeed insights before was 88(mobile) and 82(desktop), for Pingdom speed size was 1.4mg and requests 83/84(green). GTMetrix Load speed about 2.1-2.4s

    -Now they are down to 76/79, and 1.6 and 94 respectively after renaming. And load speed 2.5-3s

    I encountered just few missing images like 5-6 mostly those non-gallery images that were not suppose to be linked anywhere but “none” and be viewed at full width at 648px. I just went through and “updated” them from old URL to none and they worked. Or just clicked “update” without even doing anything at the link menu where the old URL was “forgotten” on.

    However, as it was midnight like 2 am when I realized there was problems in ranking, I went to deleted all plug ins and cache and cleaned the database as I thought maybe these extra plug ins made it more heavy

    But it didn’t help, and I can not undo anything especially as I cleansed the data-base and removed this plug in and it’s traces. I have back ups but I feel like wasting a whole day and night if I go back to that point.

    I used Enable Media Replace plug in too to replace few images, so I’m not sure if that can cause any problems? Mostly I used your File Renamer. Well, I also resized some old images to smaller, but as they got blurry(I use Imagify optimizer) I had to replaces them with better original of the small size. That’s why I used the replacer. I don’t know if that can leave some trash behind?

    Google Search console does not come up with any major crawling errors. Well, there was two right after are two images were lost, but I fixed them.

    And I did not change the permalinks, should I have done it? Or does it matter? Does it only matter if I know there are backlinks somewhere out there pointing to that particular image? Does it mean I don’t need to use the Redirection plug in either that you recommend and it’s only for those who update the permalinks?

    Thank you in advance!

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  • Thread Starter kauno

    (@kauno)

    An update; Now I see the test results have improved slightly on their own.

    Pingdom site size down to 1.5mg, requests 90, and speed as well a bit. SpeedInsights 75/80, GTMetrix request 89 and size side 1.36mg.

    I don’t know if this is one of those mysteries in IT world that are fixed automatically over time? But there is still little way to go to reach the points before the image fixing. Resizing images to smaller should have reduced the size of the site as a whole, not the other way around.

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Hi,

    Media File Renamer has nothing to do with the size of your images. Nothing at all ?? It’s not even technically possible that it impacts in any way.

    Rankings in Google are not updated overnight, it takes days. Do something on your website, check your rankings 2 weeks later. But if it’s only one day later, then it was impacted by something else (or maybe, “the world” in general, and algorithms).

    Pingdom depends on its servers, on your servers. Don’t trust all those tools, they are not that perfect. Visit your WordPress admin, cache off, feel its speed. That’s the best way. Turn all the plugins off, turn them one by one. Feel where the slowness is coming from.

    Use EWWW Image Optimizer (and ask the developer if the images get bigger instead), if you want to clean your files, try my Media Cleaner. Media File Renamer has no role here, except in making your files look better and feel better for Google ranking the pages using them.

    Thread Starter kauno

    (@kauno)

    Thanks for replying. So it may be the other plug in, Enable Media Replace and it’s conflict with Imagify. Imagify may not have worked correctly when replacing the image and left it uncompressed with false positive saying it’s already optimized. I will contact also their support.

    But still one question regarding your plug in, what about the permalinks? What’s the point in renaming them? Should I do it? Would it improve SEO? Is it the “Sync Slug” function? And would I need the Redirection plug in only in that case? How do I know things are good and I’m not missing something(like broken links etc)?

    Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    Thanks for replying. So it may be the other plug in, Enable Media Replace and it’s conflict with Imagify. Imagify may not have worked correctly when replacing the image and left it uncompressed with false positive saying it’s already optimized. I will contact also their support.

    Of course, I am pretty sure that would happen. If you use Enable Media, Imagify would think the Media is already optimized even though it’s not. Contact Imagify first.

    Rename permalink with my plugin only if you are using the attachment page for your image, but most website don’t use them anywhere ?? So it’s not required, it doesn’t matter really ?? You don’t need to look into more things actually.

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