Why You Need To Compress Images For Your Website
There are lot of discussion and reviews on how important to get your website load faster as this has a great impact on many things. In fact, it is one of the ranking factors, according to G.
Research shows that a one second delay in webpage time equals a 7% reduction in conversions, 11% fewer page views and 16% reduction in customer satisfaction.
Ideally, a webpage should load within 3 seconds.
One of the culprits for a website not loading fast enough is too many images with huge size. You can check your site speed using the tools below and if you check in details most of the time you'll find that images take a lot of resources and slow down the page loading.
Speed Tools you can use (free)
- WebPageTest: The industry standard for measuring site performance – results are collected from real browsers running common operating systems.
- Pingdom: a simple tool which makes makes the same measurements, yet method of testing is undocumented.
- GTmetrix: gives you actionable insights about the best way to optimize your webpage speed.
One step you can take to improve your site speed is to compress your images before upload them to your side.
How to compress an image
There are a lot of sites offering image compression.
I have my preference to go to this site called http://compressimage.toolur.com (Online photo resizer and image optimizer). The compression is fast and it can reduce the image size up to 70-80% of your image and image still looks good.
This image original size was 357kb and using the compression tool I managed to reduce it to 68kb which is more than 80% reduction in size.
(picture: credit Pixabay)
Successfully compressed from 357.2 KB to 68.1 KB( C, 30%, Progressive, Auto x Auto )Successfully compressed from 357.2 KB to 101.1 KB( C, 50%, Progressive, Auto x Auto )Successfully compressed from 357.2 KB to 143.9 KB( C, 70%, Progressive, Auto x Auto )
Do you normally compress your images before uploading them to your website?
What tool(s) are you using to compress images for your website?
or are you not?
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Joe
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Please do Goran.
I believe you want to start using the tips and not to wait till your site has grown huge. Even now, you can revisit your post /pages and see if the image you already uploaded (especially big image for featured images and sliders), need to be compressed.
All the best.
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Joe
Thanks Joe. This will help. I've been using or trying to use the content images along with pics that I usually save when I am researching. These look like some great tools that will definitely make a difference. Thanks again.
It's my pleasure to share this.
Hope it reaches others too in WA community.
Thank you for dropping by.
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You are 100% right on the size of pictures having a great impact on your site's speed.
I normally use imageresizer.net to compress my images, which I found to be ideal for my needs.
My preferred choice of site speed test is GTmetrix, although I also use Pingdom and Pagespeedinsights on occasions.
Thanks for sharing the link, James.
I am sure the community will appreciate that.
Thanks.
Joe
Hi Joe,
Thanks for sharing this valuable info and the links to make this happen.
To be totally honest I have not compressed any images. Guess now it's time to take action...
Cheers...Charles
Hi, Joe.
Thank you for this. It wasn't a problem with my website, but I can see that it can become a problem. So I guess that I must start compressing my pictures.
One question though. If a visitor clicks on a post that has images in, will the post not load slower because the picture must be decompressed to display properly.
Hennie
I don't think it will effect the load speed as the image has been compressed outside the site. With the reduced image size, the post should load faster than if the image was not compressed.
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Thanks for sharing this, I use tinypng
Will check it out too. Thanks