Projects 30GB of product photos, shrunk without losing quality
30GB of product photos, shrunk without losing quality
A WooCommerce store with hundreds of oversized product images, optimised and resized without changing how they looked.
- How long
- 2016
- My role
- DevelopmentSupport
- Kind of project
- Store extensionSmall project
What the business needed.
The Follio website’s product pages were slow, weighed down by hundreds of images totalling more than 30GB, most of them far larger than they needed to be for how they were actually displayed on the site.
What I did.
I cloned the site to a staging server, then ran image optimisation to strip the unnecessary weight from every image, cropping and resizing them to the dimensions the site actually used instead of their original upload size. Typical images that were 5 to 7MB came down to roughly 80 to 300KB, depending on the image, without a visible quality change. I copied the optimised images back to the live server over SSH, keeping the same filenames so they replaced the originals directly, then ran a general speed optimisation pass on the site.
What they got.
The same product photos, at a fraction of the file size, and faster-loading product pages.
For your technical person
Stack: WordPress, PHP, MySQL, CSS, WooCommerce. Cloned live site to a staging server before any changes. Bulk image optimisation and resizing to actual display dimensions, typically taking individual images from 5 to 7MB down to roughly 80 to 300KB. Optimised images copied back to the live server via SSH, same filenames, overwriting originals in place. General site speed optimisation pass performed afterward. Project size: small. Delivered 2016.
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