Do You Compress Your Website Images?
Figured I'd share this video with fellow Wealthy Affiliate members as I know some of you may find this helpful moving forward.
The video is 8 minutes long, but I cover a little more than just compressing images.
However, if you don't have time to watch and want to know the method I use to compress images I insert into my blog posts and pages, it's simple.
(or jump to the 2 minute point of the video and watch the following 90 seconds)
Step 1: Capture and save images to hard drive/computer.
I use Monosnap to capture screenshots, works great and I highly recommend it:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/monosnap-help-us-to-help-you
Step 2: Visit the website TinyPNG.com and drag my saved images into the browser for compressing.
Step 3: Download newly compressed images to computer hard drive..
Step 4: Upload and insert in post/page.
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In the video, I perform I few tests to see the different between compressed and uncompressed images. If you'd like to test your own site here are the following links:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
I would recommend testing not just the homepage, but some of the internal pages too.
Final note, if you use Google page speed tool, please don't get too stressed out over things it's recommending you fix or improve upon. Focusing on your site content is more important.