Aceextension Image Optimizer for Magento 2

A premium, high-performance image optimization suite for Magento 2 that brings modern image formats (WebP, AVIF, SVG) and intelligent lazy-processing to your storefront.

🌟 Key Features

🖼️ Modern Image Format Support

• WebP & AVIF Generation: Automatically serves ultra-compressed WebP and AVIF images to modern browsers, reducing page weight by up to 80%.
• SVG Upload Support: Enables secure upload and display of SVG vector graphics in product galleries, category banners, and CMS pages.
• Enhanced Media Gallery: Extends the Magento Admin to support modern formats across Product Images, Category Attributes, and the WYSIWYG Media Gallery.

🚀 Performance Breakthroughs

• Near-Zero Rendering Delay: Revolutionizes image processing by deferring physical file generation from the initial page request to pub/get.php. This ensures near-instant TTFB (Time to First Byte).
• Graceful Nativization: Intelligently handles source images that are natively WebP or PNG without forcing unnecessary JPEG conversions.
• Lazy Materialization: Images are generated only when requested by the browser. If a user never scrolls to an image, it is never processed, saving CPU and disk cache.

🛠️ Technical Excellence

• PHP 8.1+ Optimized: Fully modern codebase adhering to Magento 2 coding standards, strict typing, and PHP 8+ features.
• ImageMagick Enforcement: Intelligently hooks into the Magento Admin to warn administrators and enforce the use of ImageMagick over GD2 for superior modern format support.
• Pure PHP Implementation: Operates entirely within the PHP environment, requiring no external binaries or complex proxy configurations for standard operation.

📦 Installation via Composer (Packagist)

The recommended way to install this extension is via Composer.

composer require aceextension/module-imageoptimizer
bin/magento module:enable Aceextension_ImageOptmizer
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento cache:clean

⚙️ Configuration

Available under Stores > Configuration > Aceextension > Image Optimizer:

• Module Enabled: The master switch for the module's validation and processing logic.
• Replace Catalog Images with Modern Formats: Toggles the automated URL rewriting on the frontend.
• Catalog Output Format: Select between WebP and AVIF for frontend output.
• Enable Debug Logging: Log detailed conversion and processing events to var/log/system.log.

🏗 Architecture Overview

The module utilizes a Lazy Materialization pattern:

1. URL Hijacking: Intercepts URL generation and rewrites .jpg/.png extensions to .webp.
2. Processing Bypass: Stops Magento from physically creating the resized file during the initial page request.
3. On-Demand Processing: When the browser requests the missing .webp file:
   • Nginx routes the request to pub/get.php.
   • Our MediaPlugin intercepts the request.
   • The plugin generates the required source image and instantly converts it to WebP/AVIF.
   • The optimized image is served with correct headers.

📋 Compatibility

• Magento: 2.4.4 / 2.4.5 / 2.4.6 / 2.4.7+
• PHP: 8.1 / 8.2 / 8.3
• Graphics Library: ImageMagick (Strongly Recommended & Enforced via Admin UI Warning)
• Note: This module utilizes safe PHP Reflection on Magento\Framework\Image\Adapter\Gd2 and Magento\MediaStorage\App\Media to enable modern format generation without core file modification.

📄 Recent Changes (Hardening)

The following security and stability improvements were implemented in the recent release:

• Harden AVIF handling: Added guards for imageavif and imagecreatefromavif, ensuring graceful fallback to WebP if the server environment lacks native AVIF support.
• SVG security: Introduced an enable_svg configuration toggle to whitelist SVG uploads and implemented an aroundOpen plugin to prevent backend raster adapters from attempting to process vector graphics.
• Reflection resilience: Documented target Magento versions and introduced a "log once" mechanism for reflection failures to avoid log noise while maintaining visibility.
• Centralized URL rewriting: Consolidated all URL replacement logic into a single idempotent helper method to ensure consistent behavior across all frontend plugins.
• Admin UX: Added a Diagnostics report in the Store Configuration panel to provide instant visibility into PHP-GD/Imagick format capabilities.

📄 License

Copyright (c) 2019 Aceextensions Extensions (http://aceextensions.com)