Retina images compressed for mobile?

[markmuz]

Hi Guys,

firstly, wicked theme well impressed I’ve been using for 9 months – very happy!

I am looking to change all my product images to be retina optimised which I know requires doubling their size in pixels. My only concern is that, my site is already pretty slow on smartphone devices via 3G due to the number of images and I don’t want to make it even slower by increasing the image file sizes. So my question is: Will the new retina images be compressed for mobile browsers so that download speed/time is kept low, or will upgrading to retina images slow it down further?\

Thanks for your time

Mark

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

Yes, increasing the size of your images increases the file size, and therefore makes your site a little slower. So it’s up to you to decide wether it is more important to have a fast site or retina images

– Kyle

[markmuz]

OK thanks Kyle – is there no way of coding it so that it compressed the images for when viewing on smartphone? or more usefully, when browsing not using wifi or 4G…

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Not that I am aware of sorry, you will have to research that, or hire a developer

– Kyle

[markmuz]

Do you not think that this will be a useful development for all of your templates given the prevalence of mobile browsing – this would reduce bounce backs from impatient customer a lot i would suspect and would benefit a lot of your customers…

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

If your site takes a long time to load on mobile or desktop then it will be 90% down to your host, our demos load in less that 2 seconds. Switching out images for different screen sizes is far too advanced for WordPress themes

– Kyle

[markmuz]

Right ok, download speed is fine on desktop and when on wifi but just
pretty slow via 3G.

Thanks for your help

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

That’s the same with any site, wifi is obviously quicker than 3G

– Kyle