Concrete explanations to take advantage of ImagePipe on your shop.
August 25, 2026
A watermark protects your visuals against theft, but poorly configured, it can multiply the number of variants to generate for no real benefit. How to enable it on the right image families without weighing down your store.
August 20, 2026
Switching themes often changes the actual display sizes of your images, does that mean you need to clear the ImagePipe cache? In most cases, no: here's why, and the rare cases where it's still worth doing.
August 18, 2026
Switching from a classic compression plugin to ImagePipe changes the underlying logic: ImagePipe never touches or replaces your original file, it generates variants on demand instead. How to cleanly disable the old plugin to avoid double compression and URL-rewriting conflicts.
August 13, 2026
An image reachable through a single URL, whose format changes depending on the visitor: that's what format=auto allows, and exactly what should never end up in a cached page. How ImagePipe protects against this by default, and the trap that remains if you build your own integration.
August 11, 2026
Descriptive alt text, an explicit file name, an ImageObject schema: 2026 studies show up to +12-18% clicks on Google Images for product pages that check these three boxes. None of them is automated by an image optimization engine, here's why, and how to handle them.
August 6, 2026
Google Images alone drives about 22% of web traffic according to several 2026 studies. A dedicated XML image sitemap speeds up discovery by Google, independently of the usual crawl of product pages.
July 24, 2026
A local development domain doesn't count toward your license's site quota, so you can validate your installation before switching your real store to production.
July 15, 2026
Install ImagePipe, let it automatically negotiate the lightest format each browser can display, without touching the theme or re-uploading a single image.
July 10, 2026
product_card, product_page, category_banner, manufacturer_logo, mobile_thumbnail: what each preset is for and when to use it.