Site Optimization

Well, it does seem like Smush has not been able to optimize properly, you might want to try a different solution?

WP Engine specifically recommends Smush so I’m very confused.

Do you have another recommendation?

Thank you!

Well, you could try image optimization in Autoptimize (which uses the Shortpixel image optimizatoin CDN), but I’m biased because I’m AO’s developer ??

Hi there,

You may want to reach back out to WP Engine and have the support agent check the autoloaded data as well as seeing if the agent can use NewRelic to help troubleshoot the sluggishness. It also wouldn’t hurt to have WP Engine enable admin-ajax logging to see how often that is being triggered.

It’s also possible there may be a noisy neighbor using excessive resources.

These key areas should definitely help with performance on WP Engine.

Kindest regards

@optimizingmatters my concern was potential conflicts with my existing CDN.

Thanks, @atxmatt! Will do and will report back.

kentymac; if I’m not mistaking the images are put on Shortpixel CDN before the WP Engine CDN sees them, so they are left alone by the latter.