Tools to Optimize Images for the Web

This time I have some tools for you to reduce your image size for the web. Since images can be pretty heavy, this is certainly an issue to keep an eye on. And this is why today we gathered some links here to show you some tools that will help you with this 'Image Size' issue. Even if you are a pro at 'saving as better quality jpg' it is always nice to check out some tools (old or new) to have you covered when it is time to optimize images.

List of Useful Tools

TinyPNG
TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files.

Smush.it
Smush.it uses loseless optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files.

OptiPNG
OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information of file.

ImageOptim
ImageOptim optimizes images- so they take up less disk space and load faster- by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.

Usefull Plugins

jQuery Lazyload
Lazy Load delays loading of images in long web pages. Images outside of viewport wont be loaded before user scrolls to them. This is opposite of image preloading.

Using Lazy Load on long web pages containing many large images makes the page load faster. Browser will be in ready state after loading visible images. In some cases it can also help to reduce server load.

From the Editor

I hope you like this Article and enjoyed. Now you might have some useful tools to optimize your Image and make it load faster. Smile :)