Image Optimization in Websites

Even if more and more Internet users switch to broadband every year, a large part of the Web ’s population is still running on good old connections. It is therefore unwise to count them in the equation when you ‘re designing your site, and a very great importance, we must do to dialup users is the time to load your website.

Typically, all the text on your website will be loaded in a very short period of time on the same connection. The head of slow loading sites is mainly large images on your site, and it is very important to strike a delicate balance between the use of images just enough to attract users and not overwhelm the time to load your site.

You should also go to greater length and optimize each image on your site so it loads with the least time possible. What I really mean is to use a software image to delete unnecessary information about your images, and thus effectively reducing the file size of your image without altering its appearance.

If you have Photoshop, it will be obvious to you that when you save an image as a JPEG file, a dialog appears and allows you to choose the quality of the JPEG image - normally a setting of 8 to 10 is enough good because it will preserve the quality of your image when registering to a small file size. If you do not have Photoshop, there are many free compressors image online that you can download and use to reduce your image ’s file size.

On the other hand, you can choose to save your images in PNG to get the best quality at least file size. You can also save your images in GIF format - the software image editing clips out all the color information is not used in the image and, therefore, to give you the smallest file size possible. However, recording the GIF format is often compromised the appearance of your image, so make your choice wisely!

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