In today's digital age, the loading speed of a website directly affects user experience, search engine rankings, and even business conversion rates.While images are an important part of web content, their size and loading method are often one of the key factors affecting page performance.If there are a large number of unoptimized large images on the website, even if the content is exciting, it may still discourage visitors.

幸运的是，AnQiCMS（安企内容管理系统）为我们提供了强大的内置功能，可以智能地处理图片，自动压缩大图并指定显示宽度，从而显著提升网站的页面加载性能。This article will introduce in detail how to use these features to make your website faster.

Why is image optimization so important?

Before we delve into the specific settings of AnQiCMS, let's quickly review the importance of image optimization for a website:

  1. Enhance user experience:The page loads quickly, reducing user waiting time, providing a smoother browsing experience, and decreasing the bounce rate caused by long waiting times.
  2. Optimize search engine rankings (SEO):Search engines (such as Baidu, Google) are increasingly emphasizing website performance, and websites with faster loading speeds often rank higher in search results.
  3. Save bandwidth and storage:Optimized image file volume is smaller, not only can it save server storage space for the website, but it can also reduce the bandwidth consumed when visitors load it. Especially for mobile users or users with poor network environment, the experience is improved more明显.

AnQiCMS's intelligent image processing function

AnQiCMS fully understands the importance of image optimization for modern websites, and therefore integrates user-friendly and efficient image processing capabilities in the backend.These features are mainly focused in the "Content Settings".

1. Setting for automatically compressing large images

When you upload images to AnQiCMS, the system can intelligently judge whether the images are 'large images' and automatically compress them according to preset rules.This means you don't need to manually process images with third-party tools before uploading, greatly simplifying the content publishing process.The core of this feature lies in its optimization when the image is stored on the server, which avoids visitors downloading the original large file, thus reducing the amount of data transfer from the source.

2. The clever use of specifying display width

It is not enough to just compress images. If the image is only displayed with a width of 300px on the web page, but the actual file width is 1920px, the browser still needs to download the complete 1920px image, and then resize it to 300px for display, which is still a waste of resources.

AnQiCMS's “Auto-compress to specified width” feature solves this problem.When you enable large image compression and set the target width, the system ensures that the uploaded images will be resized proportionally and saved as the specified width if their original width exceeds the set value.Thus, the image downloaded by the browser is a file closer to the actual display size, further improving the loading efficiency.

3. Additional Optimization: WebP Format and Thumbnail Management

In addition to large image compression, AnQiCMS also provides other image optimization options:

  • WebP image format:WebP is an image format developed by Google, which is typically 25-35% smaller than JPEG and PNG files under the same quality.Enable this feature and AnQiCMS will automatically convert uploaded JPG, PNG images to WebP format, bringing additional performance improvements to the website.
  • Thumbnail processing method and size:Even if there is no specific thumbnail set in the content, AnQiCMS can automatically extract images from the article content and generate thumbnails.By adjusting the thumbnail generation method (such as proportional scaling by the longest side, padding, or cropping) and specifying the size, it can ensure that the lightest weight image resources are loaded at places on the website that require small image display, such as list pages.

操作步骤：How to configure AnQiCMS?

Configuring these image optimization features is very intuitive, just a few simple steps:

  1. Log in to the AnQiCMS backend management system.Log in to the backend using your administrator account and password.
  2. Navigate to “Content Settings”.Find and click “Backend Settings” in the left menu bar, then select “Content Settings”.
  3. Configure image compression options.
    • Find “whether to automatically compress large images”Option, check the switch on the right to set it to the “Enabled” state.
    • After enabling，“Compress automatically to specified widthThe input box will appear.Here you can enter the maximum width to which you want the image to be compressed, for example, "800This value should be set according to the actual maximum display width of the content area on your website.
    • (Optional) If your website supports and you want to use WebP format for better compression, you can find thewhether to enable Webp image formatoption and check it to enable.
    • (Optional) You can adjust the "thumbnail processing method" and "thumbnail size" according to your website design requirements, which will affect the thumbnail effect generated by the system.
  4. Save settings.After completing the above configuration, be sure to click the 'Save Settings' button at the bottom of the page to make the changes take effect.

From now on, when you upload new images, AnQiCMS will automatically optimize them according to these settings to ensure that the images are clear and efficient, safeguarding the performance of your website.

Content Operation Strategy Applications

Integrating AnQiCMS's automatic image optimization feature into your content operation strategy will bring multiple benefits:

  • Free up content editors:The editor does not need to worry about the complex technical details of image size and format, just focus on the content itself, AnQiCMS will automatically complete image optimization, greatly improving work efficiency.
  • Unified image standards:Ensure that all images on the website adhere to a consistent optimization standard to avoid layout chaos or slow loading due to inconsistent image sizes or excessive size.
  • Improve overall user experience:Faster page loading speed means lower bounce rate, higher user satisfaction, which in turn improves user stickiness and dwell time.

Through reasonable configuration of AnQiCMS's image automatic compression and large image width specification feature, you can easily achieve a leap in website performance and provide users with an excellent browsing experience.

Common Questions (FAQ)

Q1: Will enabling automatic compression of large images affect previously uploaded images?A1: English.AnQiCMS's automatic compression of large images and specified width settings only take effect for the images you upload after modifying the configuration.The images on your website will not be automatically reprocessed.If you need to optimize old images, you may need to manually re-upload them, or check if AnQiCMS has other batch processing features for old images (the document mainly mentions batch re-creation of thumbnails, not large images).

Q2: How should I set 'Automatic compression to specified width' to be appropriate?A2: This width value should be determined based on the design of your website and the maximum display width of the content area.For example, if the maximum display width of your content area on the PC end is 900 pixels, setting this value between 900 and 1000 is usually a good choice.If the image is displayed full screen (such as a background image or a slide show), it can be set to about 1920 pixels.The width that is too small may cause the image to be blurred, while a width that is too large will affect the loading performance.Suggest referring to the actual layout of your website for testing and adjustment.

Q3: English compression will affect the image quality?A3: Any form of image compression may have a slight impact on quality.AnQiCMS uses a compression algorithm aimed at achieving a good balance between file size and visual quality, ensuring that the image remains acceptably clear when displayed on the web page.For most websites, the daily display of content can be ignored almost.If you have enabled WebP format conversion, you usually can achieve smaller file size with the same visual quality, further optimizing performance.