Image Optimizer for embedded Flickr images?

  • Resolved lilydoble

    (@lilydoble)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hello

    Apologies if this sounds stupid/it’s in the wrong place.

    I run a blog on a self-hosted WP site and my page load speed is absolutely awful. The main culprit are my large images, so I downloaded the EWWW image optimiser a few months ago, but it’s not doing anything for my load speed.

    I just had a thought though – most of my images are embedded from my Flickr account, and not directly uploaded to the WordPress media library.

    Could this be why EWWW isn’t working, and is there anything I can do to compress/optimise images embedded from elsewhere?

    Many thanks in advance!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    EWWW will only optimize locally uploaded images, it can’t optimize content embedded from elsewhere, including the images embedded from Flickr, Pinterest, and Photobucket.

    You’ll need to either upload the images yourself via the Add Media button when writing/editing a post or embed smaller images (if available).

    I see that you are using the Jetpack plugin, so if those images are uploaded locally, you could just switch on Jetpack’s Photon module instead of using the separate EWWW plugin, but there’s definitely nothing you can do about those images embedded from elsewhere (except embed smaller ones, if available).

    Thread Starter lilydoble

    (@lilydoble)

    Hi James

    Thanks for the reply!
    Would you suggest replacing the current images I have with locally uploaded images? Or, if I switch to uploading them to the media library from now on and the optimiser is working will my load speed eventually go down? Or as long as the embedded images are in there somewhere it will continue to be slow?

    (I am such a novice when it comes to things like this, apologies)

    Thanks again
    Lily

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    If you own the images, definitely replace them with ones you have uploaded yourself.

    If you don’t own the images, it’s best to just stick with the embed desired by the content owner, regardless of any performance hit.

    Thread Starter lilydoble

    (@lilydoble)

    Great, thanks again for your help!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re welcome!

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