One of the quickest ways to improve your website performance is by optimizing the images you use on it. This article will discuss how to optimize images for a faster website, including best practices and tools.

If you are looking to speed up your website, consider these simple guidelines when adding new photos: make sure they're cropped tightly so as not to include unnecessary information in the image; keep them as small as possible without compromising quality; compress them so they take up less space on disk and load more quickly; avoid using JPEGs where possible because they tend to be than PNGs.

If you want even more tips for speeding up your site's performance, keep reading!

KEY POINTS FOR A GREAT SITE

Fast Loading Speeds

A fast website not only feels more responsive, it also ranks better in search engine results pages (SERPs).How fast your images load plays a major role in how your customers view your site. A slow or lagging site is a quick way to make a potential customer leave your site. 

Quality Pictures

The quality of your images can have a huge effect on how your site is viewed. How does the image load? Are there distracting elements around it? Does it take up too much space and make your site slow? Optimizing the quality of your images can have a huge effect on how visitors view it.

Professional

One way to make your website feel more professional is by ensuring its photos are high quality and optimized for speed. A great example in this regard is using an image that's already been compressed, these images take up less space than the raw file. It is important that your product images are the same size. Below is a infographic of common image sizes used for e-commerce websites.

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