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image compression: a field note from an accountant
29 Oct 2024
How an accountant deals with image compression — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a contact form with nine fields. image compression slows the page for an accountant.
Half the meeting with an accountant was explaining what image compression is. The other half was agreeing that a contact form with nine fields should have been fixed a year ago.
Fixing image compression cost less than the lunch meeting where an accountant decided to wait another quarter. Waiting is never free.
an accountant did not want to hear about image compression. They wanted to know: will the site work tomorrow morning. The answer was yes, but only if we fix a contact form with nine fields today.
We got a call from an accountant on a Friday. Their image compression had expired overnight, and the booking page was returning errors to every visitor.
WordPress can handle image compression with a plugin. But the plugin adds JavaScript, a dashboard, and a support ticket when it conflicts with the next update. We wrote four lines of config instead.
Every CMS update brings a small chance that image compression breaks. For an accountant, we pin versions and test upgrades in a staging copy before touching production.
The vendor portal had silently rotated the key for image compression, but an accountant was still using the old one. Every outbound message bounced quietly.
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