“What’s the hold up?” You might ask yourself while waiting for your page to load. After trying every solution to fix this issue, you might be surprised to realize its something as simple as a photo! Images, although very important in communicating your products, can sometimes be too large and slow up your customer browser cache. With Image Optimization you can alleviate this issue and improve search engine ranking.
Here are some other great perks you will gain with this Extension
Optimize Images Without Losing Image Quality
Image quality is very important in order to sell products online. As a result, all image optimization will ensure no image quality is lost.
No Need to Install Server Software
The smushit online API is used (not yahoo which is shutdown, but resmushit which is available) so you do not need to install any server software. You can of course continue to optimize on your server if you want or need to.
Optimize Catalog Product Images
Optimize product images and add forever expiries to them to better use the browser cache.
Search Engine Optimize Catalog Product Images
Make the name of the product image the same as the product name to improve search engine rank.
Optimize Skin Images
Optimize skin images and add forever expiries to them to better use the browser cache.
Optimize Media Images
Optimize media images and add forever expiries to them to better use the browser cache.
Optimize Images in Any Directory
Easily add any directory of images you want to optimize and all the images in the directory will be optimized.
Compatible With Almost All CDNs
Image optimization is compatible even if you use a content delivery network.
Improve the Browser Cache Management of Images Files
Your catalog and CSS images will be rewritten and cached in a similar way as the Javascript and CSS. This means that once a user downloads an image, they never have to request that image on your server again. This can save dozens of server requests per page load and save hundreds of kilobytes per page load. On a default Magento Commerce install, this saves 20 web requests per page load just for the CSS images alone.
Reduce Bandwidth
Image optimization will reduce bandwidth requirements for your store which can save money.
If you can believe it, the above list is not a complete list of features. Please try the online demo or install as a risk free trial and take advantage of our risk-free 30 day refund guarantee to fully see the power and elegance of the Image Optimization extension.