ImageRecycle is an automatic Image and PDF compression plugin for WordPress. Your customers are waiting for your pages to load, it can takes long, especially on mobile devices. Even content is served in seconds by a fast server, slow connection can make your users leaving.
People are impatient in front a slow loading website, that's the result of all studies; 4 second loading causing 24% of visitors to leave (Source
statistica.com.). Image and PDF optimization is more efficient than any other optimization tool.
Images can represent from 60% to 80% of a page weight, so an optimization can accelerate your page loading by x3 or more.
WORDPRESS IMAGE AND PDF COMPRESSION
It's highly important in WordPress to make an image optimization because when you upload an image, 4 images are generated and stored on your server: a thumbnail, medium, large and original sized images.
Even more, some plugin can add their own image size for specific layouts like WooCommerce. All those images can be used in various conditions, it's easy but heavy to load.
Image optimization with ImageRecycle plugin is automatic and reduce your page weight by up to 80%. This is highly recommended for SEO and high traffic websites.
Get a 100MB trial of compression quota then it’s up to you to speedup your entire website,
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COMPRESS IMAGES AND PDF, NOT QUALITY
The jpg, png, gif optimization algorithm can reduce the image size by up to 85% (5x +), while the resulting photos are visually identical to the originals. We believe that image and pdf compression is a matter preserving the quality then reduce the size.
Reducing the image and pdf size can be done using a massive compression of data and result a worsened quality. We detect already compressed media and return original files.
WOOCOMMERCE IMAGE COMPRESSION AND 3RD PARTY PLUGINS
The plugin is highly configurable, and you can choose media folders to compress from your server.
So, it will work with all third-party plugins including WooCommerce, galleries plugin. Plus, you can of course optimize media from other folders (multiple site, another CMS...)
Test full service for free during 15 days.
Main features:
- Compress automatically new images & pdf
- Compress automatically existing images & pdf
- Launch a full image optimization process in background and get notified by Email when it's done
- Determine which folder to optimize or not
- 1 month all original media backup and one click restore
- Image resizing
- Define an optimization quality per media type (jpg, png, gif, pdf) > Lossy/Lossless/No compression
- Define a min and max size to optimize
- Optimize png, jpg, gif
- Filter your optimized / non optimized media by status, date, file name
More details here, ImageRecycle: https://www.imagerecycle.com/cms/wordpress
How to optimize images with WordPress plugin:
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Video presentation:
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To install the automatically:
- Through WordPress admin, use the menu: Plugin > Add new
- Search for ImageRecycle
- Click on install then click activate link
To install the plugin manually:
- Download and unzip the plugin imagerecycle-pdf-image-compression.zip
- Upload the /imagerecycle-pdf-image-compression directory to /wp-content/plugins/
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
Quick start for media optimization
- Go in the menu Settings > ImageRecycle
- If you don't have an account, click on create new account and get a free 15 days trial
- If you have an account than enter API and secret key
- Configure the image optimization options if needed
- New images and PDF are automatically optimized after upload in background
- Existing media can be optimized using the menu Media > ImageRecycle