Featured Images and Media Settings

  • Resolved bradborland

    (@bradborland)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    I am (to say the least) a bit confused about featured images and media settings (sizing).

    I’ve run a speed test on my site and it dings a few images that apparently aren’t optimized.

    1. What should the size of images optimally be when uploading to my media library?

    2. What should the image sizes be (thumbnail, medium, and large) in media settings?

    3. Is there any other best practices for images I can apply?

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  • So really the first two questions have the same answer… Dimensions of the image should not matter because the speed tests you are running are referring to the file size not the dimensions of the images.

    As for best practices, just make sure that the images are saved for web. Most images when saved for web will be below 500KB.

    Hope this helps. Once you find an answer that satisfies you please tag the thread as resolved for us.

    Thread Starter bradborland

    (@bradborland)

    Are there any best practices regarding featured image sizes? Any default settings?

    Same as what I mentioned goes for all images on your site.

    Thread Starter bradborland

    (@bradborland)

    As for best practices, just make sure that the images are saved for web. Most images when saved for web will be below 500KB.

    What do you mean by saved for the web?

    When you are exporting images from photo editing apps there should be an option to “Save for web” this will compress them down as much as possible for you without distorting the image.

    If you do not have a way to re-export the images/logos using an application then there are a number of plugins in the repository that will help you to do this. My Favorite one is https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/

    Thread Starter bradborland

    (@bradborland)

    Thanks!

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic.

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