EWWW Image Optimizer

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Q: Hi there, I have a few questions I hope you see before the deal ends:- 1.

Are compressed images stored on my site as well as the CDN? Can they be reverted back to full-size if needed?

2. What exactly happens if you go over your bandwidth? Do the compressed images just get delivered by my site's server instead?

3. With the CDN, does Google still credit my site for the image? Images and their metadata can help your content rank, so I need to know the ranking juice is being passed to my site.

4. The same sort of question but in regards to a Google Image search - will Ewww compressed images show up okay and will users be directed to my site?

5. I currently use LiteSpeed cache to compress my images (I don't use their CDN). Do I need to revert the images back to full size?

6. If I use a CDN to deliver my pages in the future, will that conflict with Ewww, or will there even be a need for Ewww at that point if I already use LiteSpeed? (Apologies for the blunt question!)

gizmo2501Sep 14, 2021
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A: Hi gizmo2501,
We can only activate one purchase/license per email, and 2TB is the max allowed on the LTD.
If you ever need more bandwidth, we have special pricing for Sumo-lings here: https://ewww.io/appsumo-addons/

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Posted: Sep 14, 2021

Hi gizmo2501,
Times running out, but still available :)
1. There are two services included in the LTD for optimizing images. The Easy IO CDN does not alter the images on your server/site, but stores the optimized copies on our CDN edge servers. The Compress API, however, will allow you to also compress the local images on your server. The Compress API includes a 30-day backup, so that the originals can be restored if needed (very very rarely needed).
2. We send you an email letting you know that an upgrade is needed. Your service continues uninterrupted since all accounts are covered by Peak Overage Protection. Only if you repeatedly ignore those emails do we shut you off.
3. You bet, we include a "canonical" header to let Google know the authoritative version of the image is the one on your site.
4. And pretty much the same as #3, yes.
5. Nope, we'll work with whatever you've got currently. If lightspeed is already doing some optimizations, EWWW IO will work to improve that further.
6. If you are using the Easy IO CDN, don't activate another CDN down the road, it isn't needed and would conflict with EWWW IO. Our CDN does a lot of automatic conversion (WebP), compression, and auto-scaling to make sure your images are as efficient as possible.

Happy Optimizing!

Posted: Sep 14, 2021

HI there!

Thanks for that.

So, just to clarify on the bandwidth limit - if you send us an e-mail letting us know we have gone over, but we don't purchase more bandwidth, and subsequently you shut us off, will the images then simply load from our site's server instead for the rest of that month, and then they would revert back to Ewww's images when the next month (so bandwidth reset) rolls around?

Hope that makes sense!

Posted: Sep 14, 2021

Oh, and to check where you said not to use another CDN - what if we want to use one for parts of our page that aren't images? Would that conflict with Ewww?

Thanks!

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Posted: Sep 14, 2021

That's a good follow-up, and the reason we don't like to shut folks off is because it will break your site, or at the very least, all your images will be broken until the next check-in by the plugin. We generally give you at least a month to upgrade, to make sure you've seen our emails multiple times.
Within 24 hours of a "shut-off" your images would be reverted to the local copies. Bandwidth is tracked on a rolling 30 day window, so there's no "reset". If you're consistently over the limit, and usage isn't coming back down, you must purchase a monthly add-on to cover the overages, or your service will eventually be discontinued.

Regarding the CDN for "other parts of your page", you can certainly do that, but it's not very good for performance. Every new service you introduce requires a DNS lookup and another connection, so 1 CDN is best.

Posted: Sep 14, 2021

Great, thanks for that!

I got a few (9) licenses. Is there a way to combine them all to get 2tb x 3, so 6tb all together in one account?

Posted: Sep 16, 2021

Cool! Thank you!

Last question, I promise! - If I use another CDN for my whole site, including images, is there any benefit to me to use Ewww?

Many thanks for your help.

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Posted: Sep 16, 2021

For sure, EWWW IO does way more than just a CDN can, and would certainly work just fine with a CDN. That's how we used it in the years before we launched our own CDN, and lots of folks use it that way also.
But using our CDN IS the fastest way to get images optimized and converted to WebP on your site.
Otherwise, if you DID use a different CDN, you would use the Compress API to optimize all the images on your server (with WebP Conversion if you want that). Enable the lazy load, and you'll still get auto-scaling support for "responsive" images.
And of course, there's also the SWIS Performance plugin included in all tiers--which has a handy CDN URL rewriter for folks like you that want to use something besides Easy IO.