How Does the Plugin Work?
How Does the Plugin Work?
WP Compress was built to make all of your images and assets load lightning-fast across the entire globe, as images are the 1 cause for slow loading websites, which leads to users stuck waiting. Lightning-fast images can lead to increased website performance, lower bounce rates, better Search Engine rankings and more conversions!
WP Compress has two optimizatiFew readersWhat Are Adaptive Images?
What Are Adaptive Images?
When optimizing and serving your images, we’ll also resize it properly for the browser and screen used by each and every visitor for extra speed and savings!
In the Live Compression Mode adaptive images can automatically serve the properly sized and transformed image to the visitors device. This helps improve speed and image quality, depending on the user's device.
For example, if you're viewing on a 27in 5K iMac in chrome, a retina (2x) webp image would be serFew readersUnderstanding PRO Settings
Setting Up PRO Settings
PRO settings can be found inside the plugin in the top right corner of the settings panel or within the Management Portal.
Serve CSS via CDN Allows your website to minify and serve CSS files via the CDN - be sure not to duplicate CSS settings with other solutions, however all toggles are temporary and can be toggled ofFew readersWhat Happens if I Run Out of Credits?
What Happens if I Run Out of Credits?
In Live Mode your images will revert to the previous state, typically the slower, heavy images that you previously had on your website. Once additional credits have been allocated (from the portal or new purchase) you may resume lightning-fast live optimization and continue serving through our hybrid global CDN.
In Local Mode your images will stay in their current state, and no further optimization can be run until you either add additional crediFew readersWhat Happens if I Deactivate the Plugin?
But say you were to deactivate, if you were using live mode, your site will resume serving the significantly slower, unoptimized images. Your images will remain in the previous state before WP Compress was added.
If you've locally compressed images, the smaller optimized images are saved on your server and if you were to deactivate the plugiFew readersDo I need a WordPress Website?
Do I need a WordPress Website?
While WP Compress was built to run on WordPress, we've expanded a live image optimization solution that works on ANY website!Few readersWhat are Overflow Credits?
What are Overflow Credits?
Overflow credits (or one-time credit packs) allow you to optimize outside of your existing monthly quota on a site by site basis!
In the example above, we've set a 100,000 credit monthly quota for this website; however, with a 1,000,000 overflow allocaFew readersUnderstanding the URL Structure (API URLs)
Understanding the URL Structure (API URLs)
The initial part of the URL is your zone, it can either be yoursite123abc.zapwp.com or you can use a custom CNAME to make it something like cdn.yoursite.com
q: is quality, the value can be l for lossless, i for intelligent and u for ultra compression mode
r: is for retina, 1 is ON and 0 is OFF retina on will 2x the pixel density of the image
wp: is for webp conversion, 1 is ON and 0 is OFF
w: is for width, this is a value iFew readersSwitching Between Local and Live Optimization Modes
Switching Between Local and Live Optimization Modes
You can configure the CDN either on or off in the settings panel - it's that simple! :)Few readersWhat is a CDN and do I need it?
What is a CDN?
A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a system of distributed servers that deliver web content to users based on their geographic location. This allows for faster and more efficient delivery of content, as the server closest to the user is automatically selected to deliver the content. CDNs also provide caching and other optimization techniques to improve the performance and reliability of web content delivery.
Does my site need global delivery?
CDN usage depends on your websFew readersWhy do I need a faster website?
Why do I need a faster website?
There are several reasons why it is critical to have a fast website:
User experience: A fast website provides a better user experience for visitors. If a website takes too long to load, users may become frustrated and leave the site, leading to a higher bounce rate.
Search engine ranking: Search engines, such as Google, consider pageFew readersTesting with Live Mode (Real-time Optimization + CDN)
Testing with live mode (Real-time optimization + CDN)
When testing with live optimization, make sure you see a CDN cache HIT to get our fastest speeds, the cache and optimization has to go to the edge locations over time and gets faster as more viewers see your content!
If it says MISS or EXPIRED you're not getting the fastest speeds yet - so re-test and watch your images and scFew readers