Optimized images in content bookmarks - Slow loading time

Themes
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I’m using content bookmarks pretty heavily in my site.

It seems that in the Digest theme the Content Bookmark image uses the full image size resulting in a slow loading experience.
See the Google page speed report for the official Digest theme.

How can I configure the Bookmark to use a small image and not the full size?

Thanks

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Bookmark Cards use the original image URL as provided by the site, so if the site provides a large image, that’s also what will be picked up by the Boomark Card. 99% of sites work fine. If an image is too large for your liking, you can also forgo the Bookmark Card and just use a link or Product Card.

The page you linked for the Digest theme is a showcase of all the styles available for the theme. As such, it hasn’t been optimized and is not really an indication of the theme’s performance.

3

Thanks Ryan, appreciate the reply.

My issue was since these were cards of other posts on my Ghost publication. Wasn’t thinking about other sites, I guess this makes sense.

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One option you have here is to set an optimized image for the Facebook card in the editor (1200 x 600 often works well). Then, your bookmark card will use that image, rather than your featured one. You can even use the same image but specify a smaller size for the Facebook image.