Optimizing Images Already on Website
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I am familiar with tools to reduce jpeg images file size etc before uploading to website. After jpeg images are uploaded to a website, what can be done to enhance load speed of these images? Any software to compress images on a website already?
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thx, Sajeet. Can I use jpegmini on images already uploaded to my website? I have tried jpegmini on files before I upload to my website and it is a nice program. Image optimization: I am giving file name, using alt tag and in process of including brief description below each image in an HTML tag format. So optimization I think is covered. It is more about how I can compress these files further, AFTER they are uploaded to my website, or somehow may things run even after. Again, as mentioned in another comment, I am using CloudFlare.
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thx, Dennis. I have my developers look in to suggestions from that Google page already. Part of suggestions is to improve images and that is why I wanted to hear how to deal with images. I am not very technologically very savvy and I thought maybe there were some software which would reduce picture file size after I have uploaded to my website…..
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thx, Nishadha. I am using CloudFlare and it is hard to tell if there is any impact away from the US. In the US, I do not see any change in load time.
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You can use jpegmini.com for jpeg images. Majorly useful when you want to compress huge images.
For optimization -
- Implement image micro data
- Submit an optimized Image Sitemap
- Have an optimized filename
- Optimized Alt Tags for images
- If applicable have a brief description under the images (approx 50 words)
- Sajeet
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Nishadha's suggestion of smushit is a good one so go for that if you are on WP
A CDN would be good for load time but I would still prefer to load it from the same domain.
Try out developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ to see more suggestions that you can apply
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If you're using WordPress then you can use http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ .
Also you can use a CDN to improve the load times.
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