George B. Thomas walks through installing Pixel Compress, a HubSpot app that automatically compresses JPEG, PNG, and SVG files. It backs up originals, shows space savings on a dashboard, and processes each image in about four seconds. WebP images aren't supported yet.
All right. I'm super excited because one of the biggest issues that we found when doing SEO recommendations inside of your HubSpot CMS is, well, the images that you or somebody else might have uploaded to your portal. And until now, there was really not an easy way to optimize your images. Now, if you had WordPress and a plugin, there are about a bazillion in one plugins that you could install and optimize those image to get better page speeds to get those images to load faster. But today we're going to talk about a new app that I'm excited about. We're going to install it in my portal and then we're going to do some tutorials in the future to get you rolling and get you optimized as well. Hey, you know what time it is? That's right, it's your boy George b. Thomas from Sidekickstrategies.com and today we're talking about image optimization, we're talking about app integration, we're talking about having you have the fastest image load page speed possible to. Well, maybe not possible, but it's going to make a big difference in your portal. So without further ado, let's go ahead and get in to the good stuff. All right, so here we are in my HubSpot portal and I am looking at Pixel Compress and we're going to put a link in the description below that you can click to get Pixel Compress and get it rocking and rolling inside of your portal. But what we're going to do today is we're going to go ahead and install this app. So I'm going to hit Install app. It's going to go ahead and open up a new tab here and I'm just going to search again for my portal. So we'll search for George B. Thomas, we'll click on that and we'll hit choose account. Now, what it's going to do is going to take you through a couple little things. This app is requesting some information. You can read through this and then you can say, yes, I agree to giving it that information or that ability to do the things that it needs to do in your hub so you can optimize your images. We're going to hit Connect app. The next thing it's going to do is it's going to route us to a page. This is going to tell us that there's a paid plan required. We can pick monthly or we can pick yearly to subscribe to Pixel Compress. In this case, I'm going to Go ahead and choose monthly and I'm going to go ahead and subscribe now. Notice immediately enhance the speed and visual appeal of your HubSpot website with Pixel Compressed Image Optimizer Unlimited images, Smart compression, automatic compression, easily install image backups, restore original images. So no need to download all of your files and then do the optimization. Nope, it will automatically do that. So we're going to go ahead and hit subscribe. And notice if you did want to go with the annual billing, you would save $36. We'll continue with the actual Pro account for the monthly amount and we'll hit subscribe. It's going to process. Once it's done processing, you will see that you're automatically directed to Pixel Compress. A nice little thank you page here. And you're going to see that there's instructions here. So welcome to Pixel Compress. The app is carefully installing itself into your HubSpot portal right now. Well, probably not right now while you're watching this, but when you actually install it, here's what it's doing. Creating Pixel Compressed folder with all of your original images for safekeeping and restoration if needed. It's going to optimize all of your images individually by its file type. JPEGs, PNGs, SVGs each have their own compression algorithm. Now, the only thing I'll say that I see here is if you've uploaded webp images, it doesn't look like it's doing webp at this point, but it may in the future. But also, if you're probably uploading webp, you know enough to have optimized those webp images, hopefully. But that's one area that you might want to diagnose in the future. Number three. Each image takes about four seconds to process through the image blender. When it's finished processing all the images, you can see how much space is saved in your portal. So you're going to get a compressed dashboard, which is beautiful. Where does Pixel Compress live in your portal? We'll show you that here in a hot minute because we can go into settings and integrations and see that you can read the rest of this. But notice we do have a log into your portal right here. If I click on that button, it's going to go ahead and take me to where I can then access my portal. I'm going to go ahead and go settings, I'm going to go ahead and go integrations, connected apps, and then what you will see is, in alphabetical order, the apps that are installed, but you'll see Pixel Compress. I've got go to Settings or View in Marketplace. I can click on the link here as well. This goes into my settings and I can see that it's active. I can see the compression report and I can even view my billing. In this case, I'm going to go ahead and open the report in the understanding that it just got started so that there's probably nothing in here to see thus far, but that's how you'll pop up and be able to see the things that you actually want to be able to see in this dashboard. Notice image compression paused for some images. Do you want to Compress all historical JPEGs? If you've aggressively compressed JPEGs previously, further compress might lead to pixelation again. If you find one that's pixelated, you can bring it back to life because they have that set up for you. I know my portal better than anybody else. You know your portal better than anybody else. So the good news is I want to compress all historical JPEGs because there haven't been anything aggressive on compressing them historically. And I will go ahead and hit Compress all historical. Yes, I understand the risk. Compress everything and I'm going to go ahead and let that pop through. And now it will go ahead and run. That's how easy it is. That's how simple it is to get Pixel compress into your HubSpot portal. We'll do another tutorial, going over the dashboard, things like that. But listen, if you want to speed up your HubSpot CMS, go ahead and get Pixel compressed. Use the link below. If you have any questions, make sure you reach out to them or us because we're here to help with HubSpot and Pixel Compress. It's that simple. It's that easy. Don't forget to be a happy, helpful, humble human and do some happy hubspotting along the way and we'll see you in a future tutorial real soon.
