A Question for the "Techies" at Wealth Affiliate.
Hi Everyone.
OK this is a question that sprung to mind earlier today.
It purely out of interest but is a question that I would like to know the answer or half an answer on.
Scenario as follows -
A person builds a website, he is a newbie and after the first 20 posts to his site he realizes that the images he used on these first 20 posts were way to large.
So - He carries on writing and creates another 200 posts with properly sized and much smaller images.
He now has a site with 220 posts, 20 of which are using images that are way to big.
Question - Will the first 20 posts with the way to big images bring down the speed of the whole site or will the continuing content with good sized images improve things?
I am currently going through my early posts and resizing images - That's why this completely fictional question came to mind.
Thank you!
Mike
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Very good answers, Mike! Once again, I learned something from a question!
Enjoy your weekend!
Jeff
It's often the way Jeff, I get answers to questions where I hadn't even thought of the subject.
Again goes to prove how valuable a resource this community is.
Mark
The hardworking way is to manually compressed those images and upload again.
The tech way is use a plug-in like WP Smush, which can compress all your images at the push of a button and then optimize images.
There are other image optimization plug-in too but they all work differently.
It wouldn't bring down the speed of the site, it would just slow down the loading time of those posts where the ultra large images were used.
There's an easy fix for resizing images. It's just a matter of manually bringing down the size and only takes a few seconds per image from the media library. How to Optimize Images In Wordpress & Improve Site Speed - Manual & Plugin Methods
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I do believe they would Michael. Optimising the images is the best way forward.
Edit: Further down the answer is no, it would load slower but if its slow to load people click away. Isn't slow to load a slow site speed?