Also you can see there are no notices anymore about optimizing images. You can see a 33 point gain in page speed just by running the module. The bottom one is after the module was installed and ran. You can see the size savings for the images as they are being regenerated.īelow are the two Google Page Speed tests ran on the website, the top one is before the module was installed and the images were regenerated. This is what the module looks like when it is regenerating images. This screenshot might look familiar, the way the module optimizes the images is very similar to how Prestashop regenerates the images in the back office. This makes the module a great time saver. So you do not have to keep regenerating images each time you add a new product. One great feature about the module that is not apparent from the configuring and set up of the module is that once it is installed, all of your new product images will automatically be optimized. Below are a couple screen shots of the module. Installing and setting up the module was very straight forward, I did not have to manually edit any files and there was nothing out of the ordinary in the set up process. I forgot to take a before and after image of the home page, but the reduction was almost 2mb and all of the images have the same quality as before. But this module did everything it promised and reduced the page size of my client’s site drastically. Most stores have tons of images I could not imagine how it could send them all over to Smushit and get everything back correctly without having errors or connection issues. Honestly with as much optimization as I do on sites, I was skeptical on how well the module would work. I talked to the guys at PresTeamShop and they sent me a copy of the module to try out. For years I have thought this would be an awesome module to have, but I did not realize that anyone had actually made this module already. It claimed to use Smushit to optimize the images that Prestashop generates. I explained to him that Yahoo has a tool called Smushit that he can use it to optimize the images before he uploads them to the site, but at the same time I realized this is not an option for the product images since Prestashop creates its own images that are not optimized.Ī couple of days later he emailed me and showed me this module he had found. The images were just too large and not optimized correctly. Earlier this week I was talking to a client and they mentioned to me that their Google Page speed score was low, so we investigated the issue together and it seemed their issue was the images on their site.
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