How to Optimize Image to Speed Up WordPress Website

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How to Optimize Image to Speed Up WordPress Website

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It is very important to make sure you optimize image in your website.

Images play a very important role in any website; it can attract more users to visit your website.

A quality images or images with quality content can attract tones of traffic to your website.

When your images include proper alt tag and title tag, it will show up in Google Image Search.

PROBLEMS

Most of the time, bloggers or web master uploads the images in large file size without doing any resize

This can cause issue below:

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HOW TO SOLVE?

There are few things you can do to solve this:

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RESIZE IMAGE TO SMALLER SIZE

Resize the image into smaller size, instead upload an image size in 12 megapixel, 4000px dimension size, resize it to 1000px dimension size instead.
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OPTIMIZE YOUR IMAGES AFTER STEP 1

Normally an image file contains a lot redundant data, you may remove the redundant data without affecting the visual.

PART 1 : OPTIMIZE THE IMAGE BEFORE UPLOAD TO WEBSITE :

There are many images editing software will allow you to optimize the image you are editing.

If you are using Photoshop, you can use the function “Save for Web”.

PART 2 : OPTIMIZE THE IMAGE AFTER UPLOAD TO WEBSITE :

If you are using WordPress for your website, there are a lot of plugins available for you to optimize your existing uploaded images.

We tested a couple of plugins, we personally love to use IMAGIFY plugin to optimize the images.

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OTHER AVAILABLE IMAGE OPTIMIZE PLUGIN

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