Friday 1 November 2019

Optimizing Images for Web




Fast loading websites are about many things, and one of the more important actions is to ensure you’ve optimised your images for web site searching.

In other words, your images have to be optimised to load as fast as possible!

If you upload your own camera or smart phone images, the physical size of those images is likely to be huge, and perhaps a few metres in diameter which is definitely going to slow their load time down.

If you have lots of similar images it will soon become noticeable how slow your website is running.

So, not only do these images need to be sized accordingly and reduced to fit your website, but also the memory size needs to be reduced also.

Your computer screen only displays images at 72 to 96 DPI, that’s dots per square inch, and so when you’re optimising images, they don’t need to display at resolutions higher than this.

Optimising images for websites display can be easy, or quite difficult.

If you’re well healed and have time to learn a new program I would suggest you invest into photo 
shop.

However, and by complete contrast, if you like to keep things fast and simple I would suggest that you use a program such as Canva to do the heavy lifting for you.

By the way, you can use canvas free option to achieve this for you.

Another way of optimising images for the web is to place them on a 3rd party referencing site such as Amazon A3.

I show you exactly how to use these in the video, so enjoy.


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