Wednesday, 18 July 2018

How to Do Image Optimization in WordPress Site?

WordPress offers so many benefits when you build a website using WordPress CMS. That’s why it is the most popular CMS platform available in the market to build the websites as almost 30% of of all the websites on internet have been built using WordPress. So many people also search on internet about how to improve the performance and speed of their WordPress site. There are many ways to improve the current state of your WordPress Developer website. But there are some things which you need to focus on to improve the user experience on your site.

Good companies which do Wordpress Website Development always advice their clients to optimize the images which they want to use on the WordPress site. You should focus on the details to come up with a good solution. The most important thing that you need to focus on while creating a WordPress site is to optimize your images properly. You should do thorough research to improve things and choose the right optimizing tool to optimize images on your site.

If you don’t know about the tools to optimize your WordPress site then read this post as in this we will be sharing with you few important ways by which you can optimize the images of your WordPress site. Let’s explain these for you here:-

●  Format of Files Matters A Lot

The important thing to note is that the file formats of the images matter a lot. If the file size is big then it will affect the loading speed of the website. Thus you can change the file formats to decrease the size of the images so that your website can load fast. There are many file formats available and you should do thorough research to improve the speed of your site. The most commonly used file formats are JPEG and PNG. These file formats offer the good site speed as they help in decreasing the size of the images. 

If you are creating an image in Photoshop then you must change the file format of the images finally. It will help you to improve the things and your website will load much faster. You should use these standard file formats when you upload the images on your WordPress site.

  Optimize Images Before Uploading Them on Your WordPress Site

There are many ways to optimize your website images and many tools available online to optimize images by reducing their sizes. You just need to make sure that by this process the quality of the images remain intact. The various online tools which you can use can optimize the images before uploading them on your WordPress site. You just have to set the size of the images on that tool and then it will scale the images according to the right size.  After the scaling you can post them on your WordPress site although the quality of the image will be impacted a bit. If you have to display a large image on your WordPress site then make sure that the image is pixel perfect and that it is optimized perfectly. If you want a quality image for your site and you also want to optimize it then you can use such graphical editing software available for this purpose online.

●  Optimizing Images After Posting Them on Your WordPress Website

If you have not optimized the images before uploading them on your WordPress site then you can do so even after uploading them by using some plugins which have been created for these purposes only. Once these images are optimized, your WordPress site will become quite fast and show good performance. The most popular plugin for doing this job is WP_Smush.it. You can optimize your uploaded images on your WordPress site by using this plugin. 

Conclusion
We have just discussed various ways of optimization the images on your WordPress website i.e by changing the format of file or by optimizing the images before uploading them onto the WordPress site or by using a plugin to optimize the images which have already been uploaded on the WordPress site. It is important to do the optimization of the images as you want your WordPress site to load quickly so that the visitors get good user experience while using your site. You should explore all options available to come at the best solution as per the needs of your WordPress site.