The time a page takes to load is something every designer worries about, or at least is something that every designer should worry about. It doesn’t matter if the layout is nice and beautiful if it doesn’t function properly. Since images can be pretty heavy, this is certainly an issue to keep an eye on. And this is why today we gathered a few links here to show you some tools and articles that will help you with this 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.
Useful Tools
TinyPNG
TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files.
Smush.it
Smush.it uses 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.
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.
CodeKit
CodeKit helps you build websites faster and better. And it also helps you optimizing images.
imgo
Image optimization tool.
jQuery Lazyload
jQuery plugin for lazy loading images.
I really like your way of explaining every thing here. As a webmaster, your goal should be to provide your visitors with the best content possible. Their experience on your site matters too. If your site is slow, it could turn them off. There are plenty of ways to speed up your website. The easiest way to do so is by reducing the average size of images used on it. These image optimizers help you do that fast.