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Photo Diet: How to Optimize Image Weight for Your Blog September 17, 2014
Using excessively large photos on your blog or website slows down loading times and is counterproductive to search engine rankings. But at the same time, a website rich in images and graphic resources is more attractive, and if properly SEO-oriented, potentially offers more indexing points.
A quick and easy way to find out how fast a website loads and how telegram data images affect it is with Google's PageSpeed tool. Simply enter the website's URL and the online tool will analyze the site's content and assign a score from 1 to 100, evaluating loading times for both mobile and desktop, as well as any issues that need to be addressed.
How then can images be optimized to reduce their size without sacrificing quality?
Here are four alternatives for this:
1. Photoshop
A classic. In the "Save for Web" option , you can reduce the size and convert it to JPEG, GIF, or PNG. It's important in this case to activate the "progressive" option for JPEG and "interlaced" for PNG . This will ensure that the image appears in a lower resolution when uploaded to the server, and its definition will gradually improve as it uploads.
Photoshop_Save for Web
“Yes, yes, but Photoshop is a program, you have to pay for a license, and using it only to optimize the size of the photos, I don't know if it's worth it.”
True, reasonable doubt. That's why below are three more free web tools that also don't require installing any program or application (and are compatible with any operating system).
2. Image Optimizer
Very useful, especially for working with JPEG files. You can upload the selected image and choose from six quality options , and combine them with the maximum and minimum size of the image's height and width. It cannot be exported from one format to another.
Using excessively large photos on your blog or website slows down loading times and is counterproductive to search engine rankings. But at the same time, a website rich in images and graphic resources is more attractive, and if properly SEO-oriented, potentially offers more indexing points.
A quick and easy way to find out how fast a website loads and how telegram data images affect it is with Google's PageSpeed tool. Simply enter the website's URL and the online tool will analyze the site's content and assign a score from 1 to 100, evaluating loading times for both mobile and desktop, as well as any issues that need to be addressed.
How then can images be optimized to reduce their size without sacrificing quality?
Here are four alternatives for this:
1. Photoshop
A classic. In the "Save for Web" option , you can reduce the size and convert it to JPEG, GIF, or PNG. It's important in this case to activate the "progressive" option for JPEG and "interlaced" for PNG . This will ensure that the image appears in a lower resolution when uploaded to the server, and its definition will gradually improve as it uploads.
Photoshop_Save for Web
“Yes, yes, but Photoshop is a program, you have to pay for a license, and using it only to optimize the size of the photos, I don't know if it's worth it.”
True, reasonable doubt. That's why below are three more free web tools that also don't require installing any program or application (and are compatible with any operating system).
2. Image Optimizer
Very useful, especially for working with JPEG files. You can upload the selected image and choose from six quality options , and combine them with the maximum and minimum size of the image's height and width. It cannot be exported from one format to another.