{"id":2468,"date":"2017-07-12T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shortpixel.com/blog\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2017-08-01T13:34:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:34:51","slug":"image-compression-woo-commerce-powered-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/blog\/image-compression-woo-commerce-powered-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Image compression for WooCommerce powered stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2470 size-full\" title=\"Image Optimization for Woo Commerce\" src=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/woo.png\" alt=\"Image Optimization for Woo Commerce\" width=\"600\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Image compression is fundamental for any website, but this is especially true for e-commerce websites. Over 3 million sites are built with <a href=\"https:\/\/woocommerce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WooCommerce <\/a>platform, the competition is fierce, and any weakness could kill a business.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>Why is image compression so important for online shops?<\/h4>\n<p>WooCommerce is one of the best things happened to WordPress community. Millions of users can open their own shop within their WordPress site in an easy and reliable way. But, no matter how small or big such shops are, they will have a lot of images on the same page. This means that your nice looking online store has huge webpages.<\/p>\n<p>If your images are not compressed, then these huge web pages will be painfully slow for visitors and they will leave your shop in a big hurry. Lost visitors = Fewer customers.<\/p>\n<p>So, <strong>unoptimized image means lost money<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>ShorPixel Image optimization for WooCommerce powered stores<\/h4>\n<p>ShortPixel works well with WooCommerce solutions and it optimizes the product images served by it. If you don&#8217;t use ShortPixel yet, go and <a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/free-sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign-up for a free monthly account<\/a>. It comes with 100 free image optimization credits per month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/free-sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2440 size-full\" title=\"Image compression for Woo Commerce\" src=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/website-optimizer-signup.png\" alt=\"Image compression for Woo Commerce\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, if you have a lot of images, then a paid plan could be a better solution, and we have <a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/pricing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">monthly plans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/pricing-one-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-time plans<\/a>. Before deciding which plan is the best for you, give <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/shortpixel-image-optimiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ShortPixel <\/a>plugin a try!<\/p>\n<p>Here is how you can <strong>start to use ShortPixel right away<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. <a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/free-sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign-up<\/a> for a free account, and get your API key.<br \/>\n2. Install ShortPixel plugin from your WordPress dashboard. In order to do this, go to the Plugins section, click <em>Add plugin <\/em>button, search &#8220;ShortPixel&#8221; and click <em>Install<\/em>. All this process takes only a few seconds.<br \/>\n3. Open ShortPixel settings panel and validate your API key. After that, you are ready to compress images either from the Media Library (use <em>list view<\/em>), either from ShortPixel bulk.<\/p>\n<p>Happy sales! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image compression is fundamental for any website, but this is especially true for e-commerce websites. 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