Google image compression
Google is working on a new feature that they are calling Guetzli. (I wonder who in the heck thought that up) It is an image compression tool. They promise that it will deliver a 35% reduction is size for jpegs and not effect image quality.
Since this is new and has been open sourced, it looks like it will be chiefly for developers that want to include it in a software.
The rendering is slooooow and a bit buggy at this point but may be another useful tool in the Google toolbox (Eventually)
For now I wouldn't jump on the bandwagon until it has some time to mature.
Put your images into Canva and optimize them for the web. That will compress them and is easy to do. Don't put images that aren't optimized on your site. It will slow down your site load times and get you a significant Google penalty for load time.
Here is Google's announcement of the new product. https://research.googleblog.com/2017/03/announcing...
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If you need to optimize your images for Wordpress, WA member derekmarshall provided some great training in March 2016 using a free Wordpress plugin called Shortpixel Image Optimiser... How to optimize images for wordpress .
I find Canva works, there is also a discussion that can be found here on WordPress images HOA part 1: How to: Images in WordPress
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Thanks for the info, Craig. I mostly use my own photos and my own software. That way I'm sure I have it right.
Bill
That works for copyright issues but you still need to optimize the image size for web display. Image size vs. Image Display size