CMS MODx is very helpful for those who want to quickly promote their project in search engines. The standard of content management system already customized to rapidly bring the website to the top of search results.
One of the important things for the successful resource promotion is the loading speed of its pages. Many of today's resources often contain a lot of pictures on their pages.
Non-optimized images reduce the site loading speed. This negatively affects the resource attractiveness for visitors. Besides, search engines can put the website position down in search results.
It is impossible to efficiently compress images in MODx by standard means. OptiPic can solve this problem. Plug-in for image compression in CMS MODx operates in automatic mode. It optimizes the size of website images without loss of their quality.
Image compression plugin for MODx is compatible with the most popular formats. It is able to optimize images that are already available on a website and images, being uploaded during resource administration. The image compression of 50-70% enables to increase the webpage loading speed by several times.
The plugin for image optimization in MODx analyzes the images that are available on the server. It performs the search of technical information within the files which can take more than half the size of the image.
Technical information includes recorded camera features, shooting and editing time some cameras also record the geographical coordinates of the shooting location. Obviously this kind of information is of the least interest for the site visitors. Therefore, image optimization for the MODx websites is just exactly about removing the redundant information and saving the image itself.
This task is performed by the "smart" algorithm, which gives the minimum load to the server and RAM. The entire image optimization in MODx is run in the background and does not interfere with the users work with the site.
Moreover, optimization allows solving the issue with lack of space on the disks. With the compression of images you obtain a space for further development of the resource.
With the plugin in MODx image reduction will no longer take much of your time.
Image optimization is special processing of a graphic file in order to minimize its size without loss of visual quality.
To carry out this procedure, there are a large number of fairly complex algorithms. However, they are all based on the same basis - all the service data there (for example, the name of the program that stores the file, etc.) must be removed from the graphic file, and also, using special programs, merge / smooth similar colors.
As a result, we get the same image, which visually has not changed. However, the volume (weight) of this file in bytes will be much less than the original. If this processing is carried out correctly, the image file can be reduced to 98% without losing image quality.
This means that the pictures on the pages of the site will be loaded many times faster after the optimization.
It has been proven that website acceleration can improve behavioral factors, as well as increase website conversion (increase sales). The longer the page of the site loads, the fewer customers will be able to perform certain target actions there. If your site on the Internet will not work fast enough, you have every chance to miss your potential income. Acceleration of the online resource will provide an opportunity to improve the conversion and due to this significantly increase revenue and attract more customers.
A page of any site most often consists of:
Such an item as an image occupies most of the entire volume on the site’s pages and is the “heaviest” part of the pages. Reduction (optimization) of images will undoubtedly significantly make it faster to download any online resource.
Accordingly, if you change (down) the size of the images, all pages of the site will start loading much faster.
Compressing the images on the site will make it possible to reduce their volume to 75-98%, without losing their visual quality.
Register and add your site to the system
Install a plugin to your site
Deposit funds to your account and select a package
After completing registration, you will receive an email with a link for activating your account. Follow that link. Next on our site enter your personal account Profile > My Sites
click the Add Site
, button, specify the URL of your site and click Connect Site
.
After your site is added to the system, go to the Download plugin
tab.
There you need to download the archive with the plugin. Unpack this archive and upload it to your site (to the root folder of the site). As a result, you should see theoptipic.io
folder in the root of the site with this structure:
On your site after that such page should be work http://your-domain.com/optipic.io/index.php
.
After you upload the plugin to your site, you will need to activate the indexing of the site in the site settings and wait for the OptiPic system to perform the first indexing of your site - it will be done within 24 hours. If you want to speed up the process - manually submit your site for indexing.
After the first indexing is completed, the system will show the number of images (the number of gigabytes) that will be found on your site. You can do this on the Compression index and statistics
tab.
Now when you have the number of images on your site - purchase the package you need and start compression in the site settings.
Image compression accelerates the site performance according to Google PageSpeed Insights. Besides, our experts are willing to accelerate the entire site for you.
The process is fully automated. Just connect your site to our service and the system will search for all images and compress them on its own.
After compressing the images, they are saved to the exact same file at the same address.
Using OptiPic is completely safe and transparent thanks to a set of measures: OWASP, security key, strictly limited set of commands, open source.
The service will constantly look for changed and newly added images and put them in the queue for compression.
It's easy to connect to any site in PHP. The service supports all known CMS and frameworks, as well as self-designed sites in PHP.
Choose whatever is necessary for you: either compressing images without losing in quality or getting the maximum compression of up to 98% but with worse image quality.
Set the maximum possible width and height. And the images will be resized proportionally according to the maximum length to the specified sizes.
The service works absolutely safely and carefully. When compressing images on the site, their original versions are saved next to the original file. Also you might choose the option of saving it in our Cloud.
Having questions about connecting to the site? Free of charge we will help you to integrate!
Upon your registration, you will get 10MB on your account. You will also be able to compress images through the web interface a single item at once with no restrictions.
OptiPic makes jpeg progressive — this is an additional acceleration of loading jpeg
The plugin scans the entire website, finds all website images and compresses them afterwards.
Plugin control is available directly in the personal account of the service.
The compression quality can be adjusted in the plugin settings.