Website load time is very much important for good user experience. We should see that our website should load with in 4 seconds of the time. Those 4 seconds of time is very much valuable for any website. If any website exceeds 4 seconds of threshold time then automatically user will lose interest in viewing the content of the website. So website will lose a loyal visitor.
So we should take some measures to bring down the load time of website. There are many factors that influence the speed of the load time. If you have heavy images on your site then automatically your website will be very slow. What’s the reason?, the reason is that clients browser should download the whole image and show it to the viewer. If the image is about 1 MB then data should be download at the client side in order to show that particular website.So images play a major role in the load time of the website. Today we will see some of the measures that should be taken to optimize the load time of the site by optimizing images.
Use Image Optimizer for optimizing images
There are tons of websites that offer optimization techniques for different image formats. Some of them are free and some offer optimization for premium rates. Some of the websites are
Kraken.io
Kraken is weblogcode favorite website that can intelligently compresses images without loosing even one pixel clarity of the image. This is the best online image optimizer resource for any website to compress the images by size and speed up website load time and performance. You can use this website for freely optimizing images with below 1 MB size. If the image you want to optimize is above 1 MB size you can not optimize it freely.
You should upgrade to premium account to optimize grater than 1 MB and less than 8 MB size images. The below gif image is optimized using kraken website. You have the facility to drag and drop multiple images simultaneously and download all those images in a zip format with one click button before using them in your website.
SmushIt
This is a website that optimizes bulk images at a time thus saving you a lot of time . You will be provided with the provision of choosing the number of upload fields to upload images. Then a one click button will smush all the images and reduce the size of the images with out decreasing the quality.
imageoptimizer
This website also helps in decreasing the size and dimensions of your images as you want. There are a lot of options for choosing the dimensions and quality of the image. You can select any one from the specified list in the drop down and get your image optimized.
Dynamic Image Optimizer
This online tool for optimizing images is loaded with lots of options. You can choose to optimize png, jpeg and gif images from the drop down list. This website will show you automatically all the optimized images. You also have the option to download the image files to your local computer.
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