First of all, thanks tra for tagging me in on this, second of all, I’d agree with tra, you want to make sure the images are of a small file size for optimal loading times, but also that they load in high enough quality for the product to be clear, this means not making them excessively large pixel wise but making them large enough, but it’s a nice website that should do you well! I’d recommend getting out there on social media, Instagram reels seem to do me best out of everything as it’s the only place on Instagram that’s all user content and no ads making it attract a lot more attention, but to get the sales coming in, just make sure you’re posting on social media and spreading the word in your local community, I don’t exactly recommend Facebook ads, how often do you find yourself clicking on those? Most will say rarely or never, just make a presence people want to see across the social game and soon enough, especially with the type of products you sell, you’ll hopefully have sales rolling in, and once you do I’d upgrade your square site and make it more personal, connecting your domain and removing square branding! Any particular questions feel free to add them to this thread and I’ll make sure to input where I can : D
To me this all depends on where it’s being exported from, if I’m exporting from Adobe lightroom I tend to drop the quality 20-50% as the images only have to load in very small spaces, if you could give me more information about the images being used and where they’re coming from and their file types, I may be able to help you discover a way to speed up loading times : )
And is this on a live site or the preview site that things aren’t loading correctly, if the site is live, could you send me a link so I can see what’s going on and how it could be solved?
It appears to me that the images are loading at a standard pace to me, the only advice I could give is just downsize the images to the size they display so that they display clearly but there’s less pixels for the browser to load, the website is looking great though and seems really user friendly so congrats on such a great site, if you have any questions I’m always around and you can always tag me in on anything for speedy answers on the topic of square online and anything to do with images!
Give me a day or 2, I’ll log on via my PC and check the source code of your site and see how many pixels the width/height is being displayed at, then I’ll be able to find an exact pixel count, if you match this then your images will load at full quality in optimum timing!
Hey @meganclarke sorry for the delay...
I've checked the image sizes for your site, it appears the images on your product pages have an HTML equivalent to:
{max-width: 599px;}which is:
<img data-v-53ab3db7="" data-v-257565e8="" alt="Natural Pet Cow " class="zoomable__image" id="1" source="/uploads/1/3/6[Redacted]/s6[Redacted]4404899_p92_i2_w604.png" source-set="[object Object]" sizes="(max-width: 599px) 600px,this means the images cannot render wider than around 600px, it also appears that you're using square crop, this means that your images could possibly be shrunk down to 600 x 600px, if you want an easy way to do this, try Adobe Spark (watermark can be removed free of charge an unlimited amount of times).
I have tested your image load size on a virtual display at 2560 x 997px and they load to as high as 580 x 580px, this means even on 4K displays the images will display just fine at 600 x 600px.
If you have anymore questions on this matter, I'm always around to help out so just tag me in @/MJDPhotography and I'll get back to you as fast as possible.
Good Luck,
Matt.
