what size should shopify product images be

when it comes to online shopping how,fast your site loads is,super super important and it can mean,the difference of a sale or someone,instantly leaving your site,so in today's shopify quick tips video,we are going to go over,how to speed up your site pretty easily,in the shopify platform,so we've all had that experience before,where we go to a shop whether on our,desktop or our phone,and it loads really really slow and the,images are like slowly loading in,no matter how good of an internet,connection you have and you just,leave because you don't want to sit,there and wait for the whole page to,load,and this happens a lot and people are,losing sales on their ecommerce store,because of it,so you can actually see how your site is,performing in terms of page speed,inside your shopify store back in so to,see how your site is performing you'll,just go to,online store and themes and you'll see,that underneath your published theme you,can see there,your speed score and how it compares to,others in your industry,as well as click to learn more about,your page speed,so this is pulling in information from,google's page speed,tool and it gives you a lot of detailed,information about,your homepage collection page and,product page and how quickly that,they're loading,and it gives you a score for each of,these areas so you know where you can,see,where improvements need to be made now i,will say that a lot of the things that,they suggest,aren't always possible to do and this,could be based on the,theme that you are using for your,shopify store a lot of themes have code,that are in the actual theme itself,to make different functionality things,on the site work,as well as every time you add in an app,from the shopify app store,that's adding even more code into your,theme,and so while the functionality of the,app is nice it can start to really bog,down your site load time,so anytime you're adding in a new,shopify app make sure that it's,something that you actually really need,and i also recommend every few months,just going through your shopify app list,and making sure that you're using,everything fully and that you're still,wanting to use that app and otherwise,maybe just remove the app and the,code from your theme this will help,speed up your theme overall,but again it's a little bit less that,you can manage if you need that app for,different functionality,or you need the functionality that your,site theme is providing you you can't,really change a lot there,but one of the things that you can,change is your image sizing,and a lot of times when i'm going in to,review different shopify stores i see,that their images are just,too big and so the server is having to,show these huge images especially on,mobile devices,and it's just taking really long to show,that image,so you can actually go in and resize,these images directly inside of,shopify so to do this you'll go to a,product that you want to resize the,image of,and you'll actually once you upload the,image to shopify,you'll click to open it there and then,you'll see in the bottom left hand,corner you have a couple different,options you can,crop the image you can draw on the image,and you can also resize the image,there so if your site uses zoom in,techniques where you're actually,able to kind of hover over the image and,zoom in,when you're on the product page then i,recommend going with the size of,2048 pixels this would be for a square,image but it's a,still good quality image size it's going,to have a good zoom capability,without being a huge file size and if,you don't have zoom in technology,on your site then i recommend going with,about half of that,for image size so 1024 pixels,again this is still going to be a nice,high quality image for your site,but it's not going to just be this,monster image that,is really heavy on your site to load and,slows down your site speed now that's,for product images,any other images that you have on your,site like your page images,or your home page images you would need,to resize those before bringing them,into shopify and that's going to really,depend on the image size that you need,based on the theme that you're using so,look through your theme information,there,in terms of the size that is recommended,for different areas like your home page,slideshow,and then you can use external tools like,adobe photoshop,or canva.com which is a free online tool,and you can resize the images there and,save them out so that way you're making,sure that you're adding in the correctly,sized images,for each area of your site once you go,through and you resize these different,images,you're going to have faster loading,times for the pages and you're going to,have,happier customers and hopefully also,maybe see an increase in sales,especially on mobile devices,so i hope you found this shopify quick,tips video helpful,if you did we have more videos like this,coming out every tuesday all about,shopify,so make sure to check out the full quick,tips video playlist over here,and click that subscribe button yet if,you haven't yet to subscribe to this,channel,thanks so much for watching and i'll see,you in the next one

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