Glossary
At a glance
- What you get
- Understand every word of the guide without looking it up elsewhere.
- Time
- 3 minutes
- Plan
- All plans
- AVIF, GIF, JPG, PNG
- Image formats. The app converts them to WebP.
- Cap
- The maximum number of conversions of a plan: 100 in total on Free, none on Unlimited.
- Conversion
- Creating a WebP file next to the original and moving the references onto the new file.
- Development store
- A Shopify test store, not open to customers, used by developers and agencies.
- Files library
- The Content › Files section of Shopify Admin, where Shopify keeps the store’s images.
- Free trial
- The days of Unlimited without a charge before the first payment.
- Guided setup
- The four steps (Language, Terms, Settings, Plan) the app shows the first time you open it.
- Lossy / lossless compression
- Lossy makes the file lighter by removing detail the eye barely sees. Lossless keeps the file pixel-identical.
- MB (megabyte)
- The unit used to measure the size of a file.
- Megapixels
- Millions of pixels: the image’s width times its height, divided by one million.
- Overview
- The app’s home page, with the numbers of your catalog.
- Photographic PNG
- A PNG file that holds a photo, not a logo or a drawing.
- Product gallery
- The photos shown on a product’s page, in a set order.
- Reference
- The link that tells the store which file to show in a given place.
- Scan
- The app’s reading of your catalog: it finds the images and the places they’re used, without changing anything.
- Shopify Admin
- The control panel of your Shopify store.
- Shopify App Store
- The official store of apps for Shopify.
- Theme
- The look of the store, that is how Shopify lays out the pages for customers.
- Undo
- Puts the original file back in every place where the app had put the WebP file.
- Variant
- A version of a product, for example a size or a color, which can have its own image.
- WebP
- A modern image format that every current browser can show.