High qualitty images and mobile

[kitoks]

We know that google likes high quality unique images. On the other side google likes fast load times (in particular on mobile).

What about showing two different dimensions images on desktop and mobile? Is it good? If yes than any wordpress plugins for that?

[KristinaKledzik]

Thanks for the shout out, Ryan! Although, I think Smashing Magazine has already answered this question the best:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/07/22/responsive-web-design-should-not-be-your-only-mobile-strategy/

Basically, what you want to do is load high quality images for desktop, but remove those images or serve lower quality images for mobile. You can either do this by loading the images you need with JavaScript rather than CSS, so matchMedia can change the images based on device type, or you can set up your server to deliver differently sized images based on device type.

Hope this helps!

[RyanPurkey]

With modern mobile devices their screens are actually pretty good at displaying high resolution images, but responsive design still helps significantly in squeezing layouts into handy formats across platforms. The crew at Distilled wrote a nice post about this a couple of years ago that's still applicable, here: http://moz.com/blog/seo-of-responsive-web-design.

[EGOL]

This is one of the best questions ever.   I hope you get great responses and one of those responses thinks that the topic is worthy of a post on the Moz Blog.