If you’re thinking of improving the speed of your WordPress blog, then optimizing your images comes along, right? If you try to boost the speed of your blog without working on your images, your blog won’t have much improvement – that’s for sure…
Some weeks back, I did talked about the “Best WordPress Image Optimization Method” in case you’ve not read it, you can still do.
There, I talked about how to simply optimize your images without putting much stress on yourself and your database. Many friends, who liked that post, requested I make another post by giving them more and more (automated) options on how to cut the size and weight of their images without compromising their image quality.
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So today, I am bringing to you “my top 3 plus 2 WordPress image optimization plugin” I think you’d love to try.
Why it Matters to Optimize the Images on your Blog
First, the image you use plays a big role in your blog speed. If you have it on your blog without optimizing it, you will notice the slowness when opening your articles.
Remember: Many people who surf the net, don’t like blogs that are slow.
To further show you that your image plays a lot in your blog speed – take 2 same blogs (with the same theme, the same host and the same content), use images on one of the blog and do not use image on the other one. Now test both blogs for speed and see which of the blog is faster.
Remember that if you’re on a shared host package, you will easily get your blog suspended due to the slowness of your blog, why? Over loaded blog takes a lot of CPU usage to work properly.
But you can save yourself the nightmare of having a slow blog or suspension from your host by taking the right actions now. And what’s the right action? By using one of the WordPress image optimization plugin mentioned in this post or better still, follow the instructions found here.
My Top 3 WordPress Image Optimization Plugin You Need to Use
Without wasting much of our time, let go to our countdown…
Smush.it:
Okay, here we go… smush it is one of the most used WordPress image optimization plugin around.
It helps optimizes your images by simply stripping the Meta data from them. Making your images lighter and still retains the normal color and quality of your images.
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Bloggers love and use the plugin because of the features it offers. Two of its features are;
Stripping the un-used colours from indexed images
Converting certain GIFs to indexed PNGs
Ewww image optimizer
A while ago, a friend asked me if I’ve used the Eww Image Optimizer before… I told him “No” snd he insist I try it and see how it goes.
Unlike Smush it, the Ewww Image Optimizer automatically optimizes your images as you upload them to your WordPress blog
Bloggers love and use the plugin because of the features it offers. Two of its features are;
It automatically helps in optimizing your images created by the WP Image Editor
Apart from optimizing the images you upload, it also Optimize Everything Else like; blog theme images and more…
Lazy load
Okay! Some WordPress ‘VIP’ team came together to create a simple, but yet effective plugin to help speed up our blogs by reducing the size of our images.
How does Lazy Load work? It helps improve your page load times and server bandwidth by loading the Images only when it’s visible to the user. Hey, you don’t need to worry because the plugin uses jQuery.sonar to achieve all that.
My Plus 2 WordPress Image Optimization Plugin You Should Also Check Out
Our bonus WordPress image optimization plugin is none other than;
SEO Friendly Images:
This plugin made it to the list because it has something SEO bloggers use and love. Though it optimizes your images, but it those not reduce the size of your images.
Using the plugin to speed up your blog is not an option, but using it to attract search engine is the main focus
Now let’s see what it actually does;
SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress SEO plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for SEO purposes.
CW Image Optimizer
This plugin works like the previous plugins I mentioned earlier. It helps reduce your images weight without compromising the quality of the images.
Let’s hear it from the author’s mouth;
The CW Image Optimizer is a WordPress plugin that will automatically and losslessly optimize your images as you upload them to your blog.
The CW Image Optimizer plugin is based on the WP Smush.it plugin.
Let’s Talk:
I have mentioned 5 plugins here that are awesome enough to speed your blog, also get you favorable traffic from search engines
Now let’s make the discussion more interesting… do you use any of the above plugin? How is your experience with it?
Do you use any other WordPress image optimization plugin aside from the ones mentioned above? Then, do name it down using the comment box below.
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