Automatic image compression plugin for Zen Cart in 2 clicks
OptiPic — simple & automated solution
One may find plenty of CMS for creating an online store. However, there are leaders among them famous for their convenient interface, rich functionality and stable operation. Zen Cart is listed there among the leaders.
The developers of Zen Cart declared this CMS to be an art of e-Commerce. Indeed, the system has been successfully used to create many online stores.
The sites in Zen Cart are rather fast, but still they lose the pages loading speed eventually. The problem is the abundance of images that are used for designing the resource page or the item card.
Webpage image compression in Zen Cart can help regain the page loading speed. This CMS cannot optimize images on its own since the developers did not provide it with a tool for this kind of work. The Solution is to download a special plugin for image compression in Zen Cart which is called OptiPic.
This developed plugin has already proved its practical efficiency. Website image compression in Zen Cartis performed through analyzing the image code. That code might contain technical data that have no impact on image quality or resolution, but they do occupy the disk space. Therefore, the compression of the images in Zen Cart also helps to free up the resources of hard disks.
How are the images optimized in Zen Cart?
A plugin for optimizing images in Zen Cart helps reduce the image size by 70%. In some cases, compression can reach 90%. The thing is that OptiPic removes additional information about the image: location, camera data, software that was used for processing and the like.
Image Optimization of the site in Zen Cart allows you to accelerate the the downloading of pages. Studies have shown that modern users prefer to make their purchases in the online stores with fast display of the information.
Therefore, the optimization of pictures in Zen Cart has a positive effect on conversion. The obvious advantage is also getting extra space on the disk that allows to keep developing the store without buying additional disk quota.
OptiPic operates automatically and finds images for optimization independently. All you need to do is to monitor the speeding up of the webpage loading.
What is image compression
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.
What will optimize images for your site
- Save disk space.
- Speed up page loading.
- Minimum server load.
- Increase conversion.
- Better site ranking for search results.
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.
OptiPic Benefits
- There are no monthly payments.
- Full Automation.
- Free connection assistance.
- The Internet address (URL) of the compressed images does not change, they will continue to be stored on your site.
- To connect and use the service, you do not need to have special skills in programming or administration.
- There are no restrictions on image size in the system.
- Friendly technical support.
How can optimizing images for speed up a site?
A page of any site most often consists of:
- images;
- html-code (text content, layout, markup);
- video;
- javascript scripts with logic running from the browser;
- css files with page styles.
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.
How to get started with OptiPic service for Zen Cart for image compression?
1
Sign Up to OptiPic
2
Install a plugin to your site
3
Deposit funds to your account and select a package
Register and add your site to your personal account
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.
Download and install the plugin to optimize images
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.
Select a package and fund your account
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.
Features and Benefits
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
How does the image compression plugin work on Zen Cart
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.
You only pay for the volume saved by compressing images
For example, the service reduced the image size from 200 KB to 30 KB. After this operation just 170 KB are debited from your account.
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