b00rnQ: exclude small images?
Mots of the time I work with online stores from customers, and these online stores have countless images that do not need to be optimized because they are not important, such as menu bars, logos from payment providers, shopping bag, search icon, etc. - in summary, I currently have a customer online store with about 110 product pages but 40k images, no joke! In this case, there are 7-8 images to optimize for a few products, but on most pages only 1-2 images, so let's say there are about 250 images to optimize. How can I exclude all the other images if I want automatically optimization?
Dave_AltText.ai
Sep 23, 2025A: The default settings for our Shopify app is to only work on *product* images. So this may be what you are looking for? If you do want to process other images, you can do a bulk update and select non-product images as well.
Verified purchaser
I didn't ask about Shopify, did I? By the way, Shopify is not popular in Europe; most online stores here are WooCommerce, then Magento 1.9, and then Magento 2 :-)
My question was more general though: currently, I have to optimize a Gambio store, and next a Magento 1.9, so how does it work with these shops, especially since there is no official plugin?
So for WooCommerce, right now you can add a custom filter function which will skip images unless they are product images: https://alttext.ai/docs/developers/wordpress/#skipping-specific-attachments
(you'll need a very small amount of engineering/dev work to implement)
Our Magento2 plugin only processes product images, so you should be OK there as well.
Verified purchaser
Thanks again for the very quick response! But what about all the other sites or stores where there is no official plugin, only the legacy plugin? ...is there maybe an option like optimize images not smaller than 10kb or something similar?
What is the "legacy plugin" you are referring to? You can always use our InstantAlt script on any website -- it only processes images larger than 100x100 pixels.
Verified purchaser
yes exactly that is what I meant, that InstantAlt script, 100x100 pixels is great, is there an option to change this value?
Ah ok. Right now those values are fixed, but we'll look at adding this as an option that can be configured!