Image Optimization: Add optipng and jpegoptim packages for each container.

[BetterWP]

Hello,
Image optimization is one of the most important things for the new web. For years now, I have been using these small magic tools on my server, which saves me time and a lot of GBs.

Even I am using it at my home devices.

I suggest including it with all apps so I can open the app terminal and run it using the following commands to start optimizing photos at the server level.

nice -n 19 find . -iname '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 jpegoptim --max=82 --all-progressive --strip-all --preserve --totals --force
nice -n 19 find . -iname '*.jpeg' -print0 | xargs -0 jpegoptim --max=82 --all-progressive --strip-all --preserve --totals --force
nice -n 19 find . -iname '*.png' -print0 | xargs -0 optipng -o7 -preserve

Credit to How to optimize for faster images in WordPress

[girish]

Thanks, I have added these to the next base image. I assume this is not urgent, since this can take a bit to come to your server.

[robi]

Until then, you can acquire the precompiled binaries and upload them to the apps that need them.

[BetterWP]

Thanks @girish No, it isn't urgent, just an idea. I understand you will add it for all apps or just WordPress ?

@robi interesting idea, but how to? Any docs

[nebulon]

It was added to the base image which all apps use, not just WordPress. See https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/docker-base-image/-/commit/feb87a57028b4891be49b3963a70847a74e5425c

[jagan]

@BetterWP said in Image Optimization: Add optipng and jpegoptim packages for each container.:

open the app terminal and run it using the following commands to start optimizing photos at the server level.

Can we have a button for those of us who don't want to meddle with commands on the app terminal unless they are really needed, please?!

Do we have to run this command every now and then to optimise images as they are added to the application? If then, can we cron job it?

[nebulon]

This seems really something highly app specific, so such a button would have to be added to the app/WordPress somewhere.

[jagan]

Sorry if this is a N00B question, but if we add this at the server level, can't we recursively optimise all images on the server, irrespective of the application?

Like, say:
[Launch] Optimise Images Tool
Select Applications to run image optimisation on
[Checklist of Apps on Server]

[Start Optimisation]

[nebulon]

I don't think its a good idea to just blindly optimize images on the server. This may have all kinds of side-effects.

[AmbroiseUnly]

I'm also interested in hosting such a service in Cloudron.

Typically, to avoid sending images to 3rd-parties not knowing what they may do with it.

It should be an application, like any other app.
Maybe this app could have a feature that automatically optimize files on the server itself, but indeed it seems like a very specific feature.

[robi]

@AmbroiseUnly In the meantime you can use https://shortpixel.com

[BetterWP]

@nebulon I tried today but it seems isn't installed

/app/data/public/wp-content/uploads# nice -n 19 find . -iname '*.jpg' -print0 | xargs -0 jpegoptim --max=82 --all-progressive --strip-all --preserve --totals --force

[girish]

@BetterWP a workaround for now till we update our base image is :

In web terminal:

mkdir -p /app/data/jpegoptim
cd /app/data/jpegoptim
wget https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim/releases/download/v1.5.5/jpegoptim-1.5.5-x64-linux.zip
unzip jpegoptim-1.5.5-x64-linux.zip
chmod +x jpegoptim
./jpegoptim --help