Super slow

  • I loved the previous version — I could see that it was quickly reducing file sizes, and the option to automatically smush every image on upload was brilliant. This new version just doesn’t seem to work as well, though.

    First, when I click the Smush button on an individual image in the media library, it doesn’t seem to do anything. Perhaps it’s working in the background, but it’s impossible to tell. The bulk option is sort of nice, but I’m not sure I should be smushing 50 images at once (shared hosting). Even so, I tried it, and after 60 seconds, it had reduced 2 files by a whopping 1.7K. It didn’t seem worth it to let it run for another 24 minutes for such small changes.

    Perhaps I just do well by not unloading ginormous images in the first place, and by making sure they’re all 72ppi instead of hi-res, but surely since I generally use PNGs instead of JPGs, it could find something to reduce. The previous version always did.

    I can’t say it doesn’t work, but it doesn’t work quickly like it used to, and it just doesn’t make enough of a difference for me to keep using it.

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  • Hey ysar,

    Appreciate your feedback!

    First, when I click the Smush button on an individual image in the media library, it doesn’t seem to do anything.

    By any chance are you using Hostgator? There is a conflict with the way they have their servers setup and we’ve reached out to them to try and get it sorted out ?? still waiting for them to make the change ?? so far they are the only host that is having any issues with it, unless you are on a different one then we would love to know which one so we can reach out to them as well.

    Even so, I tried it, and after 60 seconds, it had reduced 2 files by a whopping 1.7K. It didn’t seem worth it to let it run for another 24 minutes for such small changes.

    It should be smushing much faster than that, I just tested it on my install which is also a shared host and it smushed 17 images in about 30 seconds. They were quite small to begin with but it saved me 16% of their size, which equalled 435kb altogether. That’s with no image quality loss of course.

    Perhaps I just do well by not unloading ginormous images in the first place, and by making sure they’re all 72ppi instead of hi-res, but surely since I generally use PNGs instead of JPGs, it could find something to reduce. The previous version always did.

    It is very possible that they are already quite optimized. Keep in mind Smush does lossless optimization, so it removes the unnecessary data saved within the image file. If the image doesn’t have much of that in the first place then you might see only a small optimization.

    I would be more than happy to troubleshoot this further on your install to see if we can get Smush it moving at it’s normal speed on your install ?? I’ll also test out some of your images on my own site to make sure your site is optimizing them correctly.

    If you’re interested in doing that then please contact me through our private contact form: https://premium.wpmudev.org/contact/

    Select “I have a different question” and for the subject line enter: “Attn: Tyler Postle” – that ensures it gets assigned to me.

    Look forward to hearing back ysar!

    Cheers,
    Tyler

    Hi, is there any restriction to work locally? because the same thing happens to me it does nothing ??

    thanks and regards

    Hey Seguros,

    Hope you’re doing well!

    So it’s not smushing at all for you? If that’s the case then it’s likely that it’s not able to communicate with our servers. Smush sends the image to our server so it can do the “smushing” then it sends it back to you, so if it can’t communicate with the server – nothing will happen.

    Can you create a thread in our support area: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/wp-smushit

    Then we can help you further with this ??

    Cheers,
    Tyler

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