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On posts and pages with comments the most timeconsuming part in page creation is translating the smilies to images!
This has now been fixed in WordPress 2.8-bleeding-edge, but if you are not using that (and in production you probably shouldn’t, yet!), this plugin gives you the speedup anyway.
It replace smilies_init with a new one that constructs a more efficient regular expression, resulting in 10 ggr faster handling of smilies replacement.
Note: it uses the ‘e’ modifier to preg_replace to avoid patching any core files. Not all hosts allow this.
<h3>Performance</h3>
A page with 25 comments on an otherwise empty WordPress 2.7 got created on average 28% faster!
Profile of filters on 2.6.5 without plugin on a page with 403 comments:
<pre><code> Total: 7.052s, Filters/Actions: 5.856s (83%), Db: 0.033s (0.5%)
 1. convert_smilies (calls: 403, total time: 3.911s (55.5%))
 ...
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Profile with plugin:
<pre><code> Total: 3.439s, Filters/Actions: 2.174s (63.2%), Db: 0.036s (1%)
 ...
 4. convert_smilies (calls: 403, total time: 0.357s (10.4%))
 ...
</code></pre>
More than 50% faster!

Faster Smilies

Make WordPress posts 20-50% faster, in one step. Not needed for 2.8+.

Elementor

Image Optimizer – Optimize Images and Convert to WebP or AVIF


Constant annoying ad in the paid version of Elementor for this plugin that I and my customers have to close all the time. Grrrrr


Annoying advertising inside a paid plugin

Trash


I don't like the new spammy plugin install prompts everywhere on my sites. This is an unnecessary plugin, and there are plenty of better and free options for image optimization.


This is not a good choice


At first I thought it was just another image optimization plugin. Whereby I am totally convinced of the Elementor Builder and therefore already had the hope that the image optimization would also convince me. I then tested it on my own website. When I created it, I naturally made sure that the images were optimized. I was all the more surprised that after optimizing with the plugin, the images could be reduced by more than half the file size. I can therefore highly recommend it.


Does what it promises


Image optimizer is very easy to configure and once done, each new image is optimized automatically and quickly and it works quite well, because it has improved the loading speed of my site!



My images were already optimized and I didn't think it was possible to further gain compression without losing quality.



In the media library, you can see each image with the space saved as well as the total space saved, this allows you to see the space saved at a glance.


Great image optimisation & conversion ✨

Does the job well


Thanks for this great plugin. Its helps a lot. Looking forward to more features in the future.


Good one! helps optimize photos better

works like a charm!


The plugin works so well compared to the other solutions around,I install it for customers' websites and finely they can upload images without my help explaining how to compress the images. 


So good to have this solution by Elementor


It suggests to install in free version of elementor but later when you wanna do something it asks to connect with elementor pro. What the hell is this plan, why WP even approve this? Even you should 1% free.


Too greedy plugin, avoid it.

Automatically resize, optimize, and convert images to WebP and AVIF. Compress images in bulk or on upload to boost your WordPress site performance.

Faster Smilies vs Image Optimizer – Optimize Images and Convert to WebP or AVIF