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Why is it important to optimize images before posting to WordPress?
- Your website will load faster
- Your website will take up less server space
- Improve your website’s SEO ranking on search engines like: Google, …
Because of such benefits, today I will share about Optimizing images before posting on WordPress site.
Here are some of the most common image compression methods:
1. Choose an image format before posting to WordPress
The two most common image formats are JPEG and PNG.
JPEGs are often used for image files, because they:
– Small file size
– Good image quality
– Can be scaled, compressed, without much loss of image quality
2. Use an online image compression tool
The first are the popular web-based tools JPEGmimi and TinyPNG .
Here is TinyPNG
As you can see, it reduces the capacity quite a lot, right?
3. Increase SEO for photos
Optimizing images will help speed up the page load, so in theory also increase your chances of ranking. But did you know, photos can also be SEO to increase search rankings on image search engines. There are a few steps to take to SEO images as follows:
Optimize the title of your image file, when the image is not displayed, there should be alt text
Epilogue
Follow the steps above and you’re done optimizing images for WordPress, while lightening your site from compressing images, using the right image sizes to getting Google to like your site.
When compressing images, remember to optimize with different options and tools so you can find a balance between image quality and image size. It can be quite time consuming initially, but for the sake of user experience and for search rankings, this is necessary.
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