Woocommerce thumbnail images TOO BIG

  • Resolved ibl92

    (@isabella92)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hello!

    I am working on improving the site speed on our site. I have recently reuploaded almost all images on our site with a smaller size (800×800 for product images for example), compressed them in Photoshop (60/70%) and with consistent naming of file names (for example “bluegaz-z1-gasolgrill”). I have also cleared out my media library so there is only one version per image. None of my images that I have uploaded are named with the pixel size in its name.

    To look at my website speed I am using the tool GTmetrix. When I do a test on our website now after all of these changes and look at “optimize images” most of the images that are left to improve are product image thumbnails in the sliders I have. When I inspect the code it says that these are Woocommerce thumbnails.

    I thought that Woocommerce “gets these images” from the product page, and since all of my product pages now have optimized images these thumbnail images should also be optimized.. right? Am I missing something?

    I really really want to fix these thumbnail images so I can get an “A” on my GT metrix test. How can I do this? Wheare can I upload new thumbnail image, I cannot find them in the wordpress media library. Please please help.

    Best regards, Isabella

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  • Thomas Shellberg

    (@shellbeezy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hey Isabella,

    WooCommerce will use native WordPress thumbnail creation functionality to generate thumbnails.

    You could look at using a service/plugin if you wish to further optimize thumbnails.

    One example:

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-smushit/

    Thread Starter ibl92

    (@isabella92)

    I see!

    Thank you so much, I will get a plugin! Just to make sure, there is no manual way to edit these thumbnail images then? Cause I cannot find them in the media library. I don’t know where they are.

    Best regards,
    Isabella

    Thomas Shellberg

    (@shellbeezy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    You can access them via the /uploads/ folder of your site(by default the Media library will show the “main” image and not the thumbnails).

    Screenshot:
    https://cld.wthms.co/ELhsL7

    Thread Starter ibl92

    (@isabella92)

    Thank you! I looked at the screenshot but I am not sure how to find what I see. If I go in to the media library, where do I click? Can you tell me step by step?

    Thomas Shellberg

    (@shellbeezy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    @isabella92,

    The Media Library may not show the thumbnails(I don’t see them on my local installation). My screenshot is showing the /uploads/ directory of my own local site. You would access this either through FTP or through a File Manager plugin using cPanel/Plesk.

    A plugin like Smush should be able to find them and optimize them further. It’s outside the scope of WooCommerce but I hope that helps.

    Plugin Support Missy a11n

    (@m155y5)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to go ahead and mark this thread as resolved. If you have any other questions please feel free to start a new thread.

    Thread Starter ibl92

    (@isabella92)

    Sorry the late reply, I have been on holiday!

    Oh okay I see! You have been very helpful! ?? Thx! You can mark it as solved.

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