Image compression on mobile is way too aggressive

[pavloradich]

Hi Armin,

I noticed that all my images on mobile layout are super compressed. I don't use any compression/optimization plugins, and upload images in a very good quality. Image setting is set to 100 and resizing is turned off in Lay settings.

One image looks just how it should on desktop (original resolution and name), but the same image on the mobile layout is hyper compressed, resized to 1920 px width and renamed to something like IMG_9505. I tried to re-upload images, but they still act the same.

I've tried regenerating thumbnails as well as installing "disable Wordpress image compression" plugins etc. Nothing seems to work. I also checked other websites built on Lay — and I can see the same thing everywhere. Same IMG_9505 naming, same 1920 px width.

In other words — I’ve tried it all.

Maybe there's some hidden compression in Lay? Perhaps you could disable (globally) the image compression deep down in theme function code just like it is explained here: https://www.narga.net/how-to-disable-image-compression-in-wordpress/

My website: pavloradich.com

Image quality matters a lot to me, especially on mobile – so any help will be appreciated.
Thank you,
Pavlo

[arminunruh]

hello!

what do you think about activating "lay options" -> "never show resized version of images"?

do you think that would work for you?

[pavloradich]

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[pavloradich]

@arminunruh

I already have that activated, no difference.

But maybe you could allow this setting to be applied to a mobile as well? I am sure the problem is in here

[arminunruh]

will be included with the update i will release in a few minutes

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh so cool, thanks! Will I have to regenerate thumbnails/images to make it work?

[arminunruh]

no you dont need that

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh hi, it worked perfectly for a few days, but now ALL of my images (on mobile layout) are again got renamed and turned into super compressed versions :(

My website: pavloradich.com
I don't have any image compression plugins turned on

I just updated to 5.9.8 but it still shows that I'm on the 5.9.7 (don't know why)
something broke, pls help asap!

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh some images that I uploaded to the desktop layout also look every compressed already even in my "media library" folder. So the quality drops already there, it can be seen if I go to the original link where image is located.

I tried regenerating thumbnails – didn't help.

Some time ago, I sent you a password and a login from my website via email. Perhaps you could login and have a closer look what is going on.

Thank you

My image settings:

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh hey Armin, I seriously need your help asap, if you have a moment. Website looks like shit and I need it for work. Thanks a lot!

[arminunruh]

hey man!

yea what did you do?
it seems like all of your original images got turned into 80kb images!

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh I literally didn’t do anything. Noticed the problem yesterday, after uploading one high res image which turned into super low res on a website. After that they all became like that. Do you have any idea how to fix it? Uploading new images doesn’t help.

[arminunruh]

it seems like all of your original images were turned into more compressed versions of your images. i have never seen this happen before.

maybe it has something to do with this:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-experience-33/

you need to re-upload the images and replace them in your layout

[arminunruh]

okay i will take a closer look

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh but re-uploading new images doesn’t help. If you login into my website, you will see that any uploaded hi res image instantly turnes into super compressed one even in ‘media folder’. Even before I put it into my layout. I am basically stuck and have no idea what to do.

Strange enough, some images on desktop are still in good resolution, but on mobile everything got compressed. Maybe it still has something to do with the ‘Never show resized versions’ setting…

PS. I used Regenerate Thumbnails only after everything went to shit, so I don’t think it was a cause of the problem.

Thanks a lot! I have no idea who to ask for help if not you

[arminunruh]

i turned off all of your plugins and uploaded an image

when i right click one of your images, it wants to save it as a webp which is not normal because it is a jpg image

maybe in your webhost settings there are some image/webp compression settings turned on?

your htaccess file contained some "ls cache" statements and you had another htaccess file that contained some image

i uploaded a 3mb jpg file of mine and put the image here:
https://pavloradich.com/hello-world/

in the media library it looks correct:

but on the website it has the wrong filesize, probably because its turned into a webp somehow:

i know i recommended this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-converter-for-media/

it turns jpgs into webp did you use that?

can you try to re-upload an image of your frontpage again now and put it on the website and see if it looks better?

at least the image that i uploaded seems to look fine, whereas many of the original images that you have uploaded seem to have like 90% compression

[arminunruh]

so i know you had these 3 active:

maybe one of them did this

but yea nevertheless, jpg images being webp images on your website is fishy, maybe its some setting in your webhost control panel or sth

oh, in your database i see this:

so you had the webp converter plugin installed
when uninstalling it probably didn't revert to using your old/original images

[pavloradich]

@arminunruh I didn’t use any of the image compression settings from that plugin (because you need to pay a premium for that, which I didn’t).

Can the that webp format conversion be reversed back to original?

Just tried to upload new image — same thing, super compressed :(

[pavloradich]

@pavloradich now I deactivated ‘converter for media’. I had no clue I even had that plugin:

Images still compressed but not renamed anymore

[arminunruh]

yea it seems just disabling that plugin doesn't do much, it still loads the webp files