[Support request] How is the page size so small?

[jack]

Hey guys!

I’m relatively new to generatepress here, but what really caught my attention is how the page sizes of the templates are so small.

I downloaded a template from the site library, and ran a gtmetrix scan.

In the scan it showed that the entire page size was about 100kb.

What’s odd is, when I downloaded some of the images off of the site template, I noticed that just one of the images was 173kb.

I use rocket.net for hosting (redis) and flyingpress for browser caching. I understand that maybe with my hosting it might be automatically converted into webp, but I would see webp when hitting save as on the image. So I just don’t understand how the page size can still be so small.

The website is https://jackshelton.com

I just want to understand why that is, so that if I change the content on the page that it is as optimized as possible.

[jack]

Update: I realize now that I scanned a different page than the one with the image. I understand that GeneratePress is light weight, but it’s incredible to me how fast it loads on WordPress.

[David]

Hi there,

GP doesn’t do any image compression or conversion. If you’re seeing webP load on the front end then i would suspect a server side optimizer is being used.

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