[CyberFreak]

If you host the forum on a VPS, you could use mod_pagepeed - https://developers.google.com/speed/pag ... e-optimize

We use it here to speed up pageloads... especially for people with slower connections.

[oldbuddy]

What you seem to be asking for is server-side compression and here is one solution:
https://www.script-tutorials.com/how-to ... rver-side/

However, you may be better served to just set restrictions for uploads.

[bestwriter]

What you seem to be asking for is server-side compression and here is one solution:
https://www.script-tutorials.com/how-to ... rver-side/

However, you may be better served to just set restrictions for uploads.

Putting restrictions is what i was thinking too. We have restrictions even here on how large a size we can upload here.

[nakitakona]

This is my always concern every time I upload an image to enhance my post. It is good that my blog site platform has a facility to automatically reduce the size of the picture. I also notice that in some online writing site, there is also a function to edit the image. However, to have done beforehand so as not to cause any burden on the part of the blogger or writer. I may recommend PIXresizer. It is a free image resizing software.

Pixresizer

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[shamzblueworld]

If you host the forum on a VPS, you could use mod_pagepeed - https://developers.google.com/speed/pag ... e-optimize

We use it here to speed up pageloads... especially for people with slower connections.

Thanks CF this is a sort of thing that i was looking for.

I did a quick Google search for Smush alternatives for non-Wordpress sites and couldn't find very much information.

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/alternative- ... bsite.html - this site lists a few alternatives but most of them require you to resize photos individually. The one exception is CSS Sprite Generator, but it sounds like it might be a complicated process. I suggest you have a look at their page: http://spritegen.website-performance.org/ as well as the suggested reading they mention and see if it's what you're looking for.

Thanks Gina sprites seem like a good idea too, will have to check out if it can be done with images uploaded by users or not.

[Sam]

You would probably need an external compressor to service this. https://tinypng.com/developers could be what you're looking for. Here are the docs for compressing images: https://tinypng.com/developers/referenc ... ing-images. It only works for JPEG and PNG images. It's free for the first 500 images / month, then $0.009 per image.

[shamzblueworld]

You would probably need an external compressor to service this. https://tinypng.com/developers could be what you're looking for. Here are the docs for compressing images. It only works for JPEG and PNG images. It's free for the first 500 images / month, then $0.009 per image.

That's great. I think this will do it for me.