Optimizing images before uploading them to WordPress or any other CMS is a task that we recommend you always do. Otherwise, your images will consume a lot of space on your hosting, where you have your website hosted.
Therefore, not optimizing images will cause a slowdown. And as a consequence, the loading speed of your site will be slow. This, as you know, is a factor that Google takes into account for a web positioning and for which it can even penalize.
In these times, visual content is the most influential in users. And it is normal in the content strategy of your blog or website. Because you want to include illustrations, infographics, GIFs, memes, or banners to impact your audience.
In addition, we have, along with other design tools, online applications to optimize, resize and compress images without losing any quality.
How to reduce the size of jpg images without losing quality
The fact of reducing the size of the photos does not imply that they are 100% optimized. It is essential to consider other actions for its optimization.
Therefore, before uploading anything to your content manager or CMS, we recommend that you first reduce the size of the image and then compress its weight without losing quality. This means that in addition to reducing the number of Mb or Kb, you must also reduce the number of pixels (px).
Applications and programs to reduce the size of your images
These are some of the tools that we have already tried (and that we use today) to optimize the photos before uploading them to any website. They always maintain the best possible quality and take up the least space.
Fotojet
Fotojet is an easy-to-use online application that allows you to reduce photos and change the size of any image online in just a few clicks.
The greatest function is that it is web based. So you do not need to download any programs. And it has a very intuitive interface that starters can easily reduce the size of a photo easily. And also, it is an all in one photo editor and graphic designer.
Optimizilla
With Optimizilla, you can reduce up to 20 images at the same time. This means that you will be able to quickly and effectively reduce the size of your jpg and png images without losing quality. Moreover, this online image compression software can also compress GIF file, and PNG imags, aside from JPG files.
What differentiates this program in reducing the size of images from the previous one is that you can adjust the compression level through a slider on the right side.
But what we like the most is that we can compare it with the original file and view the result before downloading it.
Compressor.io
It is an application to reduce the size of images. Among its features, it stands out that it supports up to 4 formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, and SVG.
On the other hand, it offers you two types of compression. Lossless (lossless compression for JPEG and PNG) and lossy (lossy compression). In the first, the reduction is insignificant. But with the second good results are achieved, being able to reduce its size by up to 90%.
Another peculiarity of Compressor.io is that it allows you to reduce images of up to 10 MB. Afterward, you can directly download the images or upload them to Drive or Dropbox.
JPEGmini
JPEGmini is an application that has a free version and allows you to upload up to 20 files per day.
Although the Pro version is much faster, the free version is just as effective, as it maintains a high resolution, reducing the size of jpeg files by up to almost 80%.
Web Resizer
If you don’t have much knowledge about design and editing, don’t worry, this program is ideal for beginners.
Web Resizer allows you to upload images of up to 5 megabytes, and thanks to its simple editor, you can edit your images. Here are some features you can use:
- Reduce the weight of the image.
- Resize (width and height).
- Cut out
- Focus.
- Rotate.
- Modify its brightness, contrast, or saturation.
FILEminimizer Pictures
It is software that reduces the size of your images without losing quality or resolution by up to 98%. And it supports all these formats: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and EMF, among which you can choose four compression levels.
In addition, FILEminimizer allows you to compress files of 5 Mb at a time, reducing them to 0.1Mb.
Image Optimizer
Although at first glance, the page does not give a 100% professional image. This is another effective tool to reduce the size of your images and improve their quality. And you can do it by downloading Image Optimizer to your desktop (if you have Windows), or you can work on it online.
You have the option to choose up to 6 compression types, ranging from the lowest quality to highest quality.
Optimizador.io
Optimizer.io is a plugin for WordPress (created by WebEmpresa ) that can be used by any user, regardless of whether they are a client or not.
It can reduce between 20% and 70% without hardly losing quality. The truth is that it is a tool that we recommend for its efficiency, speed, and ease of use.
It will be enough to install the plugin and activate it so that it automatically optimizes the images. Therefore, if you decide to upload the image to WordPress first, you can reduce its size and optimize it with this plugin after uploading it to the server.
Conclusion:
Images are a very important element, whether you use them on your blog posting, website, online store, or social networks. These are responsible for attracting the attention of users, retaining them longer on your site, and generating a good impression of your brand.
But if there is something that you should not neglect, it is their sizes and/or quality. Because, in the end, this will affect the speed of your load and will affect your web positioning. Therefore, reducing the size of your online images is necessary. And you can help yourself with this list that we recommend. Give them a try, and let us know which one works best for you!
How do you reduce the size of your jpg images and other formats without losing quality?
