Speed Optimizer - Media
Image optimization is one of the fundamentals of improving site speed. With image compression, lazy load, and WebP enabled, your site loading speed will be reduced significantly. Additionally, the space your images occupy may also decrease, optimizing your disk space usage.
Compression Settings
Image Compression
RecommendedDisabledWe will resize your images to decrease the space they occupy and the time needed for each image to load. The dimensions of your images will not change and with our improved resizing algorithm the visual change in quality is practically non-detectable. Changing your compression level will re-generate all existing images, including WebP images. This is a time and resource consuming process that may take awhile depending on the number and size of your images.
Image compression level is None
Original images backups are Disabled
Use WebP Images
RecommendedWebP is a next generation image format supported by modern browsers which greatly reduces the size of standard image formats while keeping the same quality. Almost all current browsers work with WebP.
Media Optimization
Lazy Load Media
RecommendedWith Lazy Load enabled only the media in the visible part of the browser will be loaded. This makes loading faster and smoother for longer pages with multiple media items.
Exclude CSS Classes from Lazy Load
Exclude Media Types from Lazy Load
Maximum Image Width
If you often upload or use large images on your website, you might want to start resizing them to fit a maximum width. That way you can reduce the images’ file size up to 80%. This will dramatically increase the loading speed on pages with one or more large images. WordPress automatically applies maximum image width and resizes images uploaded from the media section to a maximum of 2560px. You can override this functionality from this dropdown. Use it to apply different sizes for the maximum image width or completely disable the resizing option.