OK let’s start with how to use the online versions of the Tiny Compression tool.
Steps to take as far as your website is concerned
- First back up your website if you are not sure how to do this then here are some training lessons here in Wealthy Affiliate https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/apache1/blog/have-you-backed-up-your-website
- Go to SiteRubix then SiteManager then click the Details bottom right.
- This will open up your PageSpeed section showing you how you are faring right now.
- Find which page or post is not doing so well you will see colour coding red is the slowest orange show an improvement is needed and green lets you know that it is in a good position so the higher the number the better it is.
- Now that you know what your PageSpeed is like you then go to the Icon within PageSpeed Insights which you can see above click the Big G which is Google’s own PageSpeed Insights once loaded it will tell you what needs to be fixed which could be images, along with other factors that could be slowing your site or posts. For this training we will only be concerned with the image portion.
- This will then give you an idea what images need to be compress and also how much you can save.
- Now we know the images concerned you can open up the link I gave you with the Tiny compression Tool here it is again if you can’t find it. https://tinypng.com/
- Once opened click the section at the top where it states Drop your PNG or JPG files here. When you click this it will take you to your computer where you can then find the images you want to compress either for your website or for personal use. Remember you can select up to 20 images with a total of 25MB it will automatically start to compressing those images and when complete will show you the current size and the compressed size also giving you the percentage saved in compression. To give you an idea below is a group of images I have download and the results are given once done. It doesn’t take long either
- Once the compression is completed you can now download the image which will be in a Zip file normally called Tinified zip depending on how many times you have done this you will have a number between the two words.
- Now find the Zip file on your computer then what I do is to create in word a subfolder for the image file related to that particular post or page to which as stated earlier there would be a file name for that. In this case, it is only for demonstration purposes with the sample used now.
- Now that you have your zip file saved on your computer you can download them onto your WordPress media library as you normally would if using them for your website or if you want to text someone you can add those images via your phone knowing they are now compressed as low as possible.
As you can see there was an overall improvement of 24% in all the images with two in particular with a saving of over 60% in compression.
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Thank you also for the visit and comment so good to hear from you again. :)
Haven't used this let me know if any of these work for you.
http://www.online-image-editor.com/help/transparency
https://www.canva.com/en_in/features/transparent-images/
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Make-a-picture-s-background-transparent-or-opaque-b6f5d1d1-00d6-4bfe-9e97-6bcb1f94fbca
Andre
Haven't used this let me know if any of these work for you.
http://www.online-image-editor.com/help/transparency
https://www.canva.com/en_in/features/transparent-images/
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Make-a-picture-s-background-transparent-or-opaque-b6f5d1d1-00d6-4bfe-9e97-6bcb1f94fbca
Andre
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Nice article apache1, thank you! I am under the impression that to compress site images that I have to do this one at a time and re-upload, so I have not done it even though Google says I need to. All my Google speed buttons are yellow.
Looks like Carson's Blog says this is now resolved with the new automatic image compression software, yes! :) So my buttons should be turning GREEN soon!
Looks like Carson's Blog says this is now resolved with the new automatic image compression software, yes! :) So my buttons should be turning GREEN soon!
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Hi Monique
Thanks for the comment and visit much appreciated.
As the lesson explains you can compress up to 20 images in one hit as long as they don't exceed 25MB which is all explained in the training above.
This will enable you to download it to your computer.
Once done if you are downloading to your websites media library you can download them either one at a time if you wish or click and highlight a few from your computer to the media library on your website and it can download them.
All is explained in the training above.
As for you having yellow for your speed you still need to click the refresh button which I explained in the above lesson.
The first step is to ensure that you have the Site speed is turned on.
Go to SiteRubix the SiteManager then details bottom right. just like in the lesson above.
Ensure that all three which are Site speed, Site SSL and Site Protect are all turned on and green.
That is the first part which has nothing to do with images but can help increase your speed as well.
Then scroll down and you will see all your pages and post showing the colour if they are green then that is fine as far as WA is concerned but you should also hit the refresh button as this will update your new results with Google's insights.
Once you have clicked the refresh button then hit that Big G to your right which will take you to Google's speed insights and you will find that you should have the same colour as in WA.
All this is explained above.
Now if your score is still low and yellow they will give you further insights on where you can improve to increase your scores.
As I stated in the training this is only about images but there can be other factors which can keep your speed lower.
Hope this all helps.
Thanks for the comment and visit much appreciated.
As the lesson explains you can compress up to 20 images in one hit as long as they don't exceed 25MB which is all explained in the training above.
This will enable you to download it to your computer.
Once done if you are downloading to your websites media library you can download them either one at a time if you wish or click and highlight a few from your computer to the media library on your website and it can download them.
All is explained in the training above.
As for you having yellow for your speed you still need to click the refresh button which I explained in the above lesson.
The first step is to ensure that you have the Site speed is turned on.
Go to SiteRubix the SiteManager then details bottom right. just like in the lesson above.
Ensure that all three which are Site speed, Site SSL and Site Protect are all turned on and green.
That is the first part which has nothing to do with images but can help increase your speed as well.
Then scroll down and you will see all your pages and post showing the colour if they are green then that is fine as far as WA is concerned but you should also hit the refresh button as this will update your new results with Google's insights.
Once you have clicked the refresh button then hit that Big G to your right which will take you to Google's speed insights and you will find that you should have the same colour as in WA.
All this is explained above.
Now if your score is still low and yellow they will give you further insights on where you can improve to increase your scores.
As I stated in the training this is only about images but there can be other factors which can keep your speed lower.
Hope this all helps.
moniquerene
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