Ranking drop after image compression across website.
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Hi all,
Just checked my website in Google pagespeed insights and most of our website pages were required to reduce the images file size for better page loading. So I have compressed the images using https://compressor.io/ and https://tinypng.com/ and replaced the images. Then surprisingly ranking dropped even score improved for all pages with image optimisation. What would be the reason?
Thanks
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Hi,
Thanks for the replies. All the file names and alt texts are almost same. No other changes have been made around the dates. Drop is definitely post the image replacement and directly associated. I am not sure if reverting back to old images will improve rankings anyway. And that's a lengthy job.
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I would make sure the file name and alt text is still the same as it was before the compression. Simply reducing your image sizes on your website should not alone cause a decrease in rankings.
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Hi,
Did you maintain the meta tags for the img (alt text, filename) for the newly compressed images? I imagene that the time between the replacement and the drop is fairly close for you to deduce this is connected, has the drop occured long ago (could be a temporary issue)?
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