A fast website has never been more important. One of the things which can slow a website down a lot is images. This can be a disaster for an ecommerce store which relies on a fast website to generate sales. You may think your website is fine, but you can improve it further. How? Add intrinsic image values to the html source code to ensure the correct size image is served
You have probably done a lot already to ensure that your shop serves fast images. You have set thumbnail sizes, regenerated the thumbnails, optimised the images and may even be using a CDN. But if you look at the source code, specifically on a mobile, you’ll see a disturbing result. The shop page is serving full sized images!
What? It sure is. This will be hurting your results with places like Page Speed Insights and GT Metrix. Worse still, it will be negatively impacting your website visitors.
Thankfully Woo Intrinsic Images is here to save the day
Simply install, actrivate and set at the option to on and your website will begin serving the best fit images for your store. You will likely see immediate improvements from GT Metrix, Page Speed Insights and more
Screenshots
Settings page
Shop page before activating showing the full size image loading in the source code
Shop page after activating showing the smaller thumbnail loading in the source code
GT Metrix results. Left is before activating. Right is after activating
Page Speed Insights mobile results before activating
Page Speed Insights desktop results before activating
Page Speed Insights mobile results after activating showing an improvement in loading times
Page Speed Insights desktop results after activating showing an improvement in loading times