Featured thumbnail images on Homepage are too big (in storage size)

What’s the link to your site?

It’s probably due to the thumbnail sizes not being declared properly. When I get some time I’ll look into this as soon as I can, and I’ll make sure and update the theme if needed. I’ll let you know what I find.

@Abhishek I thought I’d chime in since I’m also a Vintage customer and have quite a bit of experience using Genesis and other themes from here.

If your site is displaying Large images that aren’t compressed, then that just means you haven’t selected the right thumbnail size in your settings. If you look at the demo, there are no uncompressed/large images, they are showing up at the same size. You may want to double check thumbnail settings.

Keep in mind, the Vintage theme you’re using doesn’t actually handle the image process, WordPress and the Genesis Framework is responsible for how it handles it. You can however, assign thumbnail sizes that you want to appear in the theme, but WordPress and Genesis are still responsible for how it shows up.

Also, I wouldn’t rely on Google Page Speed, as they have proven to be unreliable, and the scores they give are random and sometimes useless. I’ve tested sites using it and the score would change even when nothing on the site changed. I’ve even tried adjusting some of the things they suggested and it either made no difference, or the score went even lower.

When I visit the Vintage demo, the site loads up perfectly fine. It’s actually pretty quick for me.

Rather than rely on a 3rd party like Google or any other speed tester, I’d just clear your browser cache, and load up your site to test the speed manually (since your visitors will be doing that anyways). If it takes too long to load, then obviously there’s something slowing it down. If it’s loading up fast on your end, then it’s most likely loading fast for everyone else.

Remember to double check your thumbnail settings, as you’ll need to select the sizes you want to appear. By the way, what’s the link to your site? I can look at your code and see which thumbnails need to be changed.