Content Optimizer
Version
1.7.3.35 (last update on Nov 29, 2011)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
60
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
51137
Date Added
7 November 2008
Uses 1.6 Updater?
- Yes
= Feature Info =
Image support:
This is intended for:
-People who don’t know how to, or want to scale images on pages by hand.
-People that don’t know how to convert from formats like BMP to a compressed format like JPG.
Rather than waste space this plug-in resizes, and optimizes all images!
Example:
Flowers.jpg - 3300px × 5100px at 3,333.2 KB
But you only want to display the image at 480px × 742px. That’s 3mb for each download! And browsers like IE make the images look ugly when scaled! If you are paying for bandwidth, or on a low bandwidth server, this can be a real pain!
Your options?
1) Resize your images before you upload them all. (But others must have to know how to do this, and it takes time, and even more if you have many sizes of the same image.)
2) Use this plug-in, and save yourself time!
Even if you use option 1, you should use this plug-in because it stops mistakes.
Before:
Flowers.jpg 3300px × 5100px at 3,333.2 KB:
After installing plug-in:
/plugins/content/contentoptimizer/Flowers.jpg is 480px × 742px at 51.75 KB:
This is all automatic now! Saving you time and money! This plug-in is a must have! More feature to come in the future! (Read about the alpha version)
= Requirements =
-Disk write access for plugins/content/contentoptimizer/ (There will be database storage for the Alpha version)
-GD version 2+
-XMLReader is included and enabled as of PHP 5.1.0 by default.
-Your memory_limit must be high enough for your images to be processed. (Or the will be skiped)
= Know working server providers =
-Godaddy Webhosting
(Contact if you wish to add your hosting provider to the list)
Images
I love this for client sites. It seems any time you open up a site to receive content by the end user, it always ends up with those 10 MPiX files being sized to display at 320x240 ;)
So, this plugin is fantastic! Not only does it make my server happy, but it keeps the site looking better, loading faster, and gives us the opportunity to say to the customer "Don't worry about the file size or format: just upload it and let the backend do the rest".
Only thing I'd love to see is support for other images, not just content items. If this plugin could also do the images found in modules and even the site's template images, I'd be even more happy.
Thanks!
So, this plugin is fantastic! Not only does it make my server happy, but it keeps the site looking better, loading faster, and gives us the opportunity to say to the customer "Don't worry about the file size or format: just upload it and let the backend do the rest".
Only thing I'd love to see is support for other images, not just content items. If this plugin could also do the images found in modules and even the site's template images, I'd be even more happy.
Thanks!
Hello I have used this for a few days. First point is it's made my site very quick and it works with easy setup
Problem: I get this error
Warning: getimagesize(../../../images/image_up/image 004.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/public_html/plugins/content/contentoptimizer.php on line 189
If there were a way to exclude articles or something along those lines I would recommend this plugin unfortunately it's glitchy and on a big site it's hard to keep your eye on this.
I'm sure an easy added article exclusion list would make this a great plugin
Problem: I get this error
Warning: getimagesize(../../../images/image_up/image 004.jpg) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/public_html/plugins/content/contentoptimizer.php on line 189
If there were a way to exclude articles or something along those lines I would recommend this plugin unfortunately it's glitchy and on a big site it's hard to keep your eye on this.
I'm sure an easy added article exclusion list would make this a great plugin
I just downloaded this thinking... well I can just uninstall it if it doesn't seem to deliver. I am on a hosted server, I installed it. It does exactly what it says. Pages are loading much, much faster.
I would also say that the published notes make this seem more challenging then it is. Thank you so much, you know it's one thing to create something that's useful but giving us a way to easily share content faster... thank you!!!!
This is truely a fire and forget plugin!
I would also say that the published notes make this seem more challenging then it is. Thank you so much, you know it's one thing to create something that's useful but giving us a way to easily share content faster... thank you!!!!
This is truely a fire and forget plugin!
i like idea of this plugin and i want to use it, but this plugin cant handle slashes. Thing is that when you pick photo with content editor then automatically comes slash before picture path (/image/stories/picture.jpg)... and it is nonsens that i must edit all articles and remove that slash from articles what my community adding to the portal.
One drawback for me is that if a photo has the same name but are in different folders, you just optimize the first photo. So that makes you any photo not repeat the name.
As for more, to encourage this plugin to adapt not only the content but other extensions such as forums. thanks ...
As for more, to encourage this plugin to adapt not only the content but other extensions such as forums. thanks ...
This is a very good piece of work, it shaved off about 1-2 seconds of load time off my website, but it also added 2 seconds to my JCE editors article save timing...
I am using this with RokZip and both combined saves me about at most 6 seconds load time, but I think the author should make it work / make it more compatible with RokZip
I am using this with RokZip and both combined saves me about at most 6 seconds load time, but I think the author should make it work / make it more compatible with RokZip
A nice collection of tools to organize and customize. Looking forward to your other seo projects, Thanks!
I was searching for a tool just like that and was able to make it work with some mods. The converted images really look very good, uncomparable to the browser-resized version. Not to mention the filesize. Only drawback I found till now is if you use the same image on several pages Content Optimizer converts a version for every page. Apart from that: Excellent!
I had no idea how badly my images were optimised, and how lazy I was being. But this plugin is brilliant, easy install pretty much no configuration required but it dramatically improved the load time on my website. Using a website load time speed test that checks load times from all over the world without this plugin enabled most load time were about 3-6 seconds with the highest loaf time from LA was 15 seconds. With the plugin enabled the average load time was 0-2 seconds with the highest time being from China at 6 seconds.
Every Joomla website should have this plugin installed. Thanks
Every Joomla website should have this plugin installed. Thanks