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A short training video about optimizing your images offline before you upload them to add to your post...
Using these tools will allow you to add more than ten images to your post and not affect your page sitespeed.
you can download RIOT ( Radical Image Optimization Tool) from https://riot-optimizer.com/
it's a free download and a very useful tool...
the other one talked about is xnconvert and this can be got from https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/
again a very useful tool
both of these are tools you should integrate into your post workflow....
this way you get fast load times on both desktop and more importantly mobile...
if you like the training don't forget to click the like
and if you have any questions or comments then please leave them below...
thanks for watching
phil
i apologise about the audio, i am working on a new system...
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Because of earlier advice from you, I was already using Riot.
Now I will be checking out xnconvert as well.
P.S. If anyone reads this who has never been exposed to Phil before you should definitely pay attention to what he says, he knows what he is talking about and gives great advice and training!!!
Zach
as i show in the training xnconvert can create small webp images...
before, i was using the lossless option and they were coming out a lot larger than the jpgs...but using hte 80% compression they are smaller so worth looking at...
have fun
phil
Can I ask you 2 more questions concerning images?
As far as the free image sites that I have gone to it seems like all the good images aren't free!
1. So my first question which is really a multi-part question is:
a. Do you use a site where you pay for your images and if so which one or ones?
b. However, if you use free sites for your images, can you tell me all the ones you use?
2. Do you use a plugin to lazy load your images and if so which one do you use?
i can feel what you are going through...
it all depends on whether you are going for a really specific image, in which case you may get really frustrated trying to find it ...
or go for an idea...
if i wanted to find an image to go with the above idea i would go with a person ...probably male frustrated....but not more specific than that...to cement the idea that it is frustrating....
so the image sources i use are the general ones that are free
Chrystopherj has a useful list Free Image Sources there is one other that i use to make my images different to most others, but that was gifted to me years ago (log in credentials) ....so it is always useful to follow some marketers as they tend to give away things...
and don't ask me which ones as i change them every so often....
i do use a plugin a3 lazy load which covers videos as well as images...
apparently wordpress is suppoesd to do lazy loading, but i have not found it very useful for pagespeed....
hope this helps Zach...
phil
but on replaying it the music is too loud and masking me...
i will have to wait till tomorrow to sort it out....
but watch the video and see if you can get the jist...
the two programs are very useful and can massively reduce the file size of your images...
i take you are hosting videos on your site ...handbrake (https://handbrake.fr/) is the program to reduce the size and resolution of those ...
i would advise hosting all videos on another platform...like youtube or vimeo and embedding a link...
apologies for the poor quality before...
phil
