Same size images with different compression

  • Fred

    (@apzoeiruty)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,
    I see that when I create an image of the exact size to be used in WordPress then that image is compressed once then another time using my custom image sizes which is normal but the problem is that the original is compressed down to 64k and the second one (exact same size) is compressed much better down to 43k!
    For example:
    I upload an image animage.jpg (size is 1000 x 1000)
    My custom image sizes include a 1000 x 1000 resize (for wordpress media image sizes ‘customized’)
    I run smushit and I have
    animage.jpg (63kb)
    animage1000x1000.jpg (45k)
    The trouble is that wordpress will use the first one even if I specify animage1000x1000.jpg in the page. So I do not get the best compressed version displayed/used …
    It is a double kind of issue : wordpress uses whatever he wants if ti sees an image corresponding to the good size even if another of the same size is better compressed and the plugin is not compressing a similar image of same sizes the same way (about 30% difference!).
    Have you a solution for this beside copying the animage1000x1000.jpg over animage.jpg?
    Thanks

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  • Plugin Contributor reSmush.it

    (@resmushit)

    Hi Fred,

    Thanks for your feedback, I think there’s more an issue with your theme which doesn’t use the correct image size. You should have a look at it, to get the optimized picture.

    Anyway for the 1000x1000px picture, that’s a strange behavior, there’s certainly a pre-operation made by wordpress to change the picture (maybe a crop ?)

    Cheers,
    Charles

    Thread Starter Fred

    (@apzoeiruty)

    Thanks for your reply,
    The theme is self-made, no plugin beside resmushit and security one.
    The easiest solution I found is to upload images bigger than the one needed and let your plugin compress the size used in the page (uploading images 1100×1100 and have a custom size of 1000×1000). This way the image used is the best compressed one and not the original (bigger)… The strange thing is that it is not happening on every images but only for a few ones in the same gallery. All my images are 1000×1000 so it should pick the right one or the wrong one in every case but it is not. Strange anyway but not a big issue, just boring.
    Thanks anyway
    Frederic

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