Thumbnails modifications

Store Builder Questions
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Hello,



I need to optimize a cs-cart webpage for PageSpeed. I’ve got 2 problems:


  1. I’ve got a block: Articles, which serves 3 latest articles’ thumbnails and brief message. When 2 or more articles have the same thumbnail picture, the thumbnail pictures are served from several different urls, like:



    /images/thumbnails/0/a.jpg

    /images/thumbnails/2/a.jpg

    /images/thumbnails/3/a.jpg



    I don’t know why there are several subdirectories in the thumbnails/ directory. Instead of 3 different urls for the same thumbnail, I’d like to have only 1. How can I do this?


  2. Google PageSpeed tells me, that thumbnail images for my products can be more optimized. How can I make thumbnails to be generated in optimized way?



    Thanks
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In regard to point 2 - try Smush it - http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ will compress images without quality loss.

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And in regards to point one, put simply, you can't without major changes to the core.



This would involve removing the functionality for deleting the image when a page/category/product/product variant/product option, etc, is deleted from the cart as well as major changes to how image paths are generated.



As default, when you delete a product, the image assigned to the product is also deleted…the expense of having a solution developed for this issue would far outweigh expenses you could put into other areas for decreasing page load times and server load.

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@Scott_C:



Thank you for the link. I will try to use it with generate_thumbnail_post hook.



@StellarBytes:



Thank you for your expert answer.