Optimizing your images can feel like black magic sometimes. The safest JPG compression is lossless meaning no quality loss (guide), lossy compression has far superior space savings. This guide will show you how to batch optimize JPG images using lossy compression with jpeg-recompress from jpeg-archive on Linux. In this guide I am batch optimizing 37000 images on … Learn more…
I do a lot of hosting migrations on Codeable to help WordPress site owners make their site faster. For anybody who has migrated hosts before you know the major bottleneck is DNS and its slow propagation. I usually check DNS records with DNS Checker and it works very well but it requires manual labor. I prefer … Learn more…
SVGs are a great way to have losslessly scalable vector images. Unlike other image types like png and jpg, svgs can be gzipped to compress them even further. Gzip compression can reduce file size dramatically. For example, you can shrink SQL files so they are 10% of their original size. This tutorial will show you how … Learn more…
Large images means a large page size which means slow WordPress page load times for users. The most common culprit is image size or lack of compression. If you never had any image size restrictions or automatic resizing on your site, it can be extremely convenient to batch resize those images in Linux. This guide … Learn more…
When you migrate a WordPress site or WooCommerce store to a new domain you may find some URLs or paths were not updated. Similarly when switching from http to https you may get some mixed content errors, usually this can be fixed by updating the database. Traditionally there are some plugins and scripts that help … Learn more…