Title: Image optimization
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Image optimization

 *  [aimen01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aimen01/)
 * (@aimen01)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/)
 * My site ([2beingfit.com](http://2beingfit.com)) has lots of images and google
   page insight is showing image optimization should fix error.
 * I would like to know-
    What is the best possible way to optimize images in wordpress
   without any plugin? If it’s not possible without plugin then kindly suggest about
   the same? Thanks

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 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/#post-6211915)
 * I browsed around your site for a min, checking on images and it seemed to me 
   that images in your site are very small both in dimension and in file size.
 * There might be some images that are big and trigger the Google warning thing,
   I wouldn’t worry about it.
 * Instead, I would suggest you trying to use bigger image, the ones you use on 
   your site are small. Use 900px width image in average, optimize it in image editing
   software before upload to WP.
 *  [Alen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alenma/)
 * (@alenma)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/#post-6211917)
 * The best way is to compress and resize the image.
 * In compressing the image you could use [tinypng](https://tinypng.com/). It got
   a wordpress plugin and a web tool for compressing image.
 * To get the right size(width and height) use the official app on Google Chrome
   for the Google Page Insight.
 *  [Qaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kais99/)
 * (@kais99)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/#post-6211955)
 * another option, along with above suggestions, try to load less posts per page,
   if you load 5 to 6 posts for main content area and load only 4 to 5 posts in ‘
   Popular posts’ widget. It would decrease the number of images on the page and
   improve page speed.
 *  Thread Starter [aimen01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aimen01/)
 * (@aimen01)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/#post-6212129)
 * @paulwpxp [@alen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alen/) [@qaiser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qaiser/)
   Thank you for replying. I already resize and compress the image before uploading
   to wordpress. But, google pageinsight still shows possiblity of further image
   reduction that is possible. Do i have to do something extra apart from that?
 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/#post-6212133)
 * [@aimen01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aimen01/) if you want you could
   configure the blog/archive page to not display thumbnail image, only show the
   thumbnail image for the top first (most recent or sticky post).
 * But I wouldn’t worry about it, also as mentioned in earlier post, in this particular
   case I would use bigger image dimension (like 900px, not some 300px) in the post
   content.
 * Your site is a blog. Of course, there will be many images on the blog or archive
   page listing 10 posts or so, plus the images in the sidebar. This is why Google
   suggests to reduce number of images because they require http requests.
 * But consider some web sites that has 5 big hero images in front page slider, 
   or one that has big feature image in the header, those will weight more and have
   more page load time than your site.
 * Average Page Weights Increase by 32% in 2013
    [http://www.sitepoint.com/average-page-weights-increase-32-2013/](http://www.sitepoint.com/average-page-weights-increase-32-2013/)
 * Average Page Weight Increases 15% in 2014
    [http://www.sitepoint.com/average-page-weight-increases-15-2014/](http://www.sitepoint.com/average-page-weight-increases-15-2014/)
 *  [Alen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alenma/)
 * (@alenma)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/#post-6212139)
 * If you are referring on the Homepage… the Google Page Insight are:
 * Losslessly compressing [http://2beingfit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/logo.png](http://2beingfit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/logo.png)
   could save 2.5KiB (44% reduction).
    – You must Compress the Logo.
 * Losslessly compressing [https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/…/7118392038951431527](https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/…/7118392038951431527)
   could save 932B (3% reduction).
    – You can’t control the Photo Feed by Google.
 *  Thread Starter [aimen01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aimen01/)
 * (@aimen01)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/#post-6212141)
 * [@alen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alen/) @paulwpxp Please suggest one
   tool that solve all losslessly compression issue and further. I use photoshop
   for compression and resizing.
 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/#post-6212142)
 * [@aimen01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aimen01/) Your Logo image is only
   5KB and already in png which is the right format for this kind of image, You 
   already got it right. Making it smaller in file size you would only save 2 KB
   which is almost nothing compared to other stuff.
 * I wouldn’t worry about this google suggestion about images in your site, instead
   I would use a bigger image dimension in single post so that the article looks
   more professional.
 *  [sunil333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunil333/)
 * (@sunil333)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-optimization-5/#post-6212144)
 * Well i would suggest you two ways:
 * 1) Before uploading the image, try to compress it, using a software.
 * 2) Use plugins to optimize your images.
 * Note: In fact, work on its extension as well, like jpg, png and etc. Use the 
   extension which will take less bytes.
 * thanks
    sunil

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