Image compression on mobile is way too aggressive

[arminunruh]

ok so i tried everything i could,
you can ask your webhost

you can write:

In chrome, when i open the chrome developer tools, open the network tab and filter for "Images" and show the "Type" tab, I see webp images are loaded instead of jpg images. Why is that? All plugins are disabled.

Then see if they can fix it.

Also do this:

have you looked at your webhost control panel if there are any image / caching settings enabled? look at that

[arminunruh]

if you want you can also send the login to your webhost control panel to info@laytheme.com and i can take a look

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh I can’t give a direct login but it is hosted on hostinger. Maybe you have an experience with that?

[arminunruh]

no i dont

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh I asked my host to have a look at the control panel, since I don’t have an access to that myself.

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh but I doubt something was done by my host without my permission. Most likely it is some leftovers from one of the updated/half deleted plugin. I remember updating some of them recently, maybe issue started after that.

Shit I feel so helpless with this, since I understand almost nothing in coding. It all worked perfectly like 3 days ago

[arminunruh]

i uploaded this image:
https://pavloradich.com/wp-admin/upload.php?item=818

it seems to have a great quality no?

[arminunruh]

when i activate the standard theme, it still only loads webp files, so its not a lay theme issue

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh yeah, I just saved it and it is webp and downsized in resolution.

Maybe it is not lay theme but wordpress? I also updated it recently.

[arminunruh]

no i have the same wordpress version as you

yea i just updated your lay theme, i didnt publish the latest update correctly yesterday

i opened a ticket here for the author of the convert media plugin:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/webp-images-are-loaded-even-after-disabling-plugin/#new-topic-0

lets see

[arminunruh]

i see some settings in your database of the lightspeed plugin you used that seem to be related to webp:

[arminunruh]

in the lightspeed plugin there are lots of settings for image optimization

when i turn them off, it doesnt seem to change anything :D

your webhost has caching too:

maybe your webhost can fix it

[arminunruh]

i have another idea

you could do a backup using the duplicator plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

then you can delete your whole website,
install wordpress again

then install the backup using the duplicator plugin
maybe that could work, not sure!

[pavloradich]

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@arminunruh

The person who is hosting my website told that he has no any kind of compression turned and have never tried to compress anything. He said it is 100% something on the Wordpress side.

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh so sorry for spamming, but the website of my friend, which is also built on the Lay Theme, started displaying images in exactly the same way as mine. Hyper compressed and webp

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh I noticed most of the images on my desktop returned back to full res and jpg BUT only Safari. On Chrome everything is still messed up.

On Safari — some images still stay compressed and in webp, especially the ‘row image background’ ones.

I upload one image — perfect jpg, then I upload another one, it compresses the shit out of it and makes it webp. This compression seems to work in a very arbitrary way.

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Nothing changed with mobile. Still a compressed as it was before on all browsers.

BUT, when I DEACTIVATE the ‘never show the resized versions on the mobile’ — it surprisingly makes images LESS COMPRESSED, but still resized.

Please look into ’never show the resized versions of images’ settings for desktop and mobile, something just happened there before/after or during one of the updates and causing all this trouble.

Thank you

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh

This is in my "uploads" when I log in in FileZilla. Every photo still has and uses thumbnails, even though they are disabled with "never show resized versions" function.

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh hey I think it is now fixed, no idea what happened but now almost everything all images displayed perfectly in incognito windows on every browser. So would be good to clear the polluted cache of the website and refresh all contents. Could you advise me the best way or a plugin to clean the cache of the website? Thanks