We have upgraded to Newsmag 4 and now all of the images in our uploads folder are being duplicated 20 times.
This is having a significant impact on server space.
I understand the sizes can be switched off through blocks management in theme panel, but for ideal display and experience we need most of these sizes enabled.
Why cant it just dynamically resize on the page instead of having to make 20 copies of the same image, which is incredibly inefficient?
Any help much appreciated. We host quite a few sites with tag div newsmag and most of which are now over 2GB each.
Thanks in advance
Google doesn’t like ‘resized with CSS’ images as the browser has to do the work, which is considered slow for mobile vs an optimized “serve images at actual size” methodology.
One trick is to change the 3 image sizes made by WordPress, separate from the theme to be your 3 most use sizes. Also consider cutting couple of modules.
Or, you could turn sizes off, and thumbs won’t be made, and will be resized in some instances (larger to small, but smaller to large will not fill boxes).
Try it; but then also check your Pagespeed Insights from Google for “make images right size…” warning.
If your server does mod_pagespeed, you can have it build temp cache images on the fly, including conversion to webp format. Again, something you’d need to test.
(I don’t work here; but we went through this. We ended up limiting “total number of sizes to 6” to keep thumb explosion down.)
ALSO: be sure to change the default compression for thumbs in your wp-config.php, as most small thumbs don’t need to be razor sharp, and so compression level of 50 works for most stuff!
