Compress Your Images Before Uploading Them
If you upload images online (for example on your website), image size really matters. Most images are way heavier than they need to be, the same goes for images attached to emails.
Big images slow everything down, often without you even noticing.
Reduce the size of your images by up to 98% with the same visual quality
I often see client images that are 5MB or more, simply because they didn’t know they could compress them easily.
Reducing image size can make a huge difference:
- Faster upload times
- Less bandwidth usage (important for hosting limits)
- Lighter web pages
- Lower energy consumption
- A more eco-friendly website
- Best results on websitecarbon.com
You don’t need to have Photoshop, you can use free online tools. My favourite at the moment is squoosh.
it does an amazing job.
Download the app and put it as a bookmark in your favourites.
http://www.squoosh.app
from 3.29MB to 88.4k
This image was a screenshot (.png) weighting 3.29 mb, which is very heavy for an image uploaded on a website.
Using Squoosh, it took about 4 seconds to reduce both the physical size and the file weight down to 88.4KB.
That’s a 97% reduction, with no visible loss in quality.
