{"id":96,"date":"2015-06-05T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexyz.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/reducing-server-load-with-image-compression\/"},"modified":"2019-06-03T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:21:46","slug":"reducing-server-load-with-image-compression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexyz.com\/blog\/reducing-server-load-with-image-compression\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing server load with image compression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">When you examine the speed of website, you can see that some off the more resource heavy \u200eareas are often images. If left uncompressed, image data can get out of hand. \u200e With new web master guidelines from Google stating that <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/speed\/docs\/insights\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">page loading speed is now a ranking factor<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>Compressing images not only reduces load on your server, it also can a effect your page load speed and in turn, your search engine rankings.<\/p>\n<p>To demonstrate how image compression can reduce page load time we decided to do a test ourselves. \u200e For this test we will use several types of uncompressed images on a test website. We will then put the website through a page speed test. Both before and after of course.<\/p>\n<p>We tested several different image compression tools for both png and jpeg images. We found <a href=\"http:\/\/nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net\/static.php?page=FileOptimizer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FileOptimizer<\/a> to be the all around best choice.<\/p>\n<h4>Below you can see the results.<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of images: 144<\/li>\n<li>Size before compression: 13.4MB<\/li>\n<li>Size after compression: 9.59MB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Image quality<\/h3>\n<p>Image compression does not necessarily mean that the\u200e quality of the image will be reduced. Many raw images are too detailed for use on the web and come with unnecessary meta data that can be removed and therefore reduce the size of the image.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCompressing images not only reduces load on your server,<br \/>\nit also can a effect your page load speed and in turn, your search<br \/>\nengine rankings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you examine the speed of website, you can see that some off the more resource heavy \u200eareas are often images. If left uncompressed, image data can get out of hand. \u200e With new web master guidelines from Google stating that page loading speed is now a ranking factor. 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