EWWW Image Optimizer Effect on Site Speed
With Site Speed being an issue to some WA members, including myself, over the past few months I have used P3 (Plug-in Performance Profiler) to test the speed of one of my websites.
For those members using the EWWW plug-in for optimizing images, you may be interested to know that a scan today revealed that EWWW plug-in had an effect of just 14 per cent.
If you look at the image below you will see there are many influences on site speed.
For instance WordPress (Yoast) SEO plug-in has 34 per cent effect, and SEO is one necessary plug-in!
One scan of a website using P3 provides six different reports.
From those six reports I find it interesting, and not particularly pleasing, that my Theme is the greatest offender. But looking further into the reports, details show it is not the ‘theme’ itself, but the content on my website.
Conclusion:
I recommend you do not use too much of your time worrying about one plug-in, in particular. There are so many influences to site speed and to understand them all we need to become an IT specialist, I believe!
I also believe the best use of our time is producing quality content and publishing it on our websites.
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This plugin sounds very beneficial! Thank you for sharing your findings...going to definitely check into this!
My pleasure Rosie. I am pleased to be of help, and I do hope you find the plugin to be of benefit :)
Hi, Valerie, that is some very good advice we can all at times angst too much over some things in the scheme of things. Thank you for sharing.
So true Alexander. Time is too precious to waste on what is difficult to control. Thanks so much for your comment.
Good info to know. Until recently I wasn't looking too much at my site speed.
Thanks Valerie.
A good way to go Mark. Worrying about Site Speed can cause us a waste of valuable time in producing content, not to mention other important tasks!
Thanks so much for leaving your comment :)
It does help. I agree. The point of my post is that EWWW has less detrimental affect on sites than some other plugins have.
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One of my sites had 3% and increased to 39% after using EWWW
We really don't need the EWWW plugin for optimizing PNG or JPEG files. Site Support used EWWW plugin to optimize links. (I will see if I can find what they did.)
I had been using Tinypng.com to optimize my images. When I found that Support had installed EWWW plugin on my site I tried to optimize existing images in an attempt to improve the optimization.
Each image I attempted to optimize further, EWWW gave me the messsage 'Images are already optimized'.
In view of that, I deactivated EWWW plugin and I continue to use tinypng.com
I reactivated EWWW plugin for the purpose of my post today. I have since deactivated EWWW.
Thank you Valerie, we will dive into this one.