5 online tools to optimize images
There comes time when you think that you should need a tool that can get your images optimized, On Zdidit you will notice we give a lot of emphasis on optimizing images this is due to the fact that images are one of the biggest reason to have a slow loading website.
If you are using WordPress website then you have option to optimize images using image optimization plugins, other than using image optimization plugins you should know how to SEO optimize images for better ranking of the content of your website.
Even though plugins can do a pretty good job at optimizing images after you upload it but if you can optimize before uploading to your website then it’s even better. This way you don’t have to worry about your on-site image optimization. This will also help you upload images quickly.
5 online image optimizer tools
It doesn’t matter whether you are using WordPress, Blogger, drupla, joomla, or any CMS. You can use the optimized images on any platform.
1. Dynamic Drive – Image Optimizer
This is an easy to use online tool to optimize images which let you to upload images from your device or from a website by entering a URL. By default the image will convert to the same format but if you like you have the option to change the format of the image to png, gif or jpg.
Then after hitting the optimize button the tool will give you many images with different qualities, it will also display the percentage of reduction of different images with the quality of the image shown besides it.
2. Image Optimizer
Image optimizer tool will help you to resize, compress, optimize the images to make it SEO friendly, you can browse image from your computer then you can use the quality on which you want the output of the image. Quality ranges from minimum size to the best quality, By default the conversion will be done in normal quality but you have the option to choose from 6 settings.
If the image is big then you have the option to resize it which is suitable for your website. Resizing also changes the weight if image, bigger size have more weight where as smaller size images are lighter in weight.
If you like then this tool is also available to be installed on your computer, with which you can optimize images regardless of having a working internet connection.
3. TinyPNG
There are people who like to use PNG files to display images on their website, If you dont know then png is different from jpg. With PNG you are able to display partially transparent images on your website. Even tough the name of the tool is tinyPNG but it can convert both PNG as well as JPG.
The UI of the tool is very simple, we liked the panda who gets happy when the file is successfully optimized. Using this tool is very simple, all you have to do is drag and drop or upload the file then hot the tinyPNG button and rest is done by the tool.
The result will show the before and after size of image with the percentage saved, you can download the resulted image with the same name.
4. Optimizila
This is an incredible online tool to optimize images, you can optimize multiple images at once and can see the result side by side. To add images you can browse and select multiple images and hit open. There is a slider with the image with the help of which you can change the quality.
When you move the slider you will see the changes happening at the real-time with the percentage saved and the total size of the optimized image right above the it. Original and optimized image are side by side so that you can compare and find the best suited optimized image for your website.
5. Compressor
A very nicely built UI which at the first glance describes that this a professional online tool to optimize images. You can use the buttons to specify that weather you like to have a lossless or lossy images, Lossless is limited to PNG and JPG. To upload an image you can use either upload or use the drag & Drop feature to get the image to the tool.
This is it after optimization of image you will see the difference in size of before and after image. This will give you the info about how much you saved data on the image optimization. To save the image you have the download button which will save the image on your device, you can even save the image on Google drive or in your DropBox directly.
Conclusion
All these online tools to optimize images are one of the easiest ways of image optimization before uploading it to your website. All the online tools are very good at doing the work, so you can choose the one best suited for you. If you know any online tool to optimize images that should be on our list then use the comment section to tip us.
Further read:
http://kraken.io and http://resizeimage.net/ are good ones too.
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