Free Online Tools for Image Optimization

Written on July 24, 2008 by nidcha

A website’s load time is one of the most important factors that affect your site usability and traffic because most visitors will skip your site if it fails to load within a few of seconds. Generally all of the text on your site will be loaded in a short time. The main causes of slow load time on the site are large images, so just optimizing your images immediately your website will load with better speed and you will get better profits.

Image optimization is one of the most common tasks for any website designer not only to select the best graphic file formats for your website but also to balance a beautiful image against load time. I would like to introduce a simple way for beginners to optimize your images in quick steps. The usual way for web designers is to always use the “save for web” feature on any image editing software. If you are a beginner, let’s make sure you’ve already optimized your images. Alternatively another popular way is turn to the free online tool for optimizing images.

The online tools provide you with quick steps and affordable options for image optimization. First, you need to prepare your image with the pixel dimension that is the same as the dimension size displayed on the web. After uploading it to your server you then put the url of the image in the text box or browse the image from your computer. Select the output suitable file format. Some tools provide the option to export to 3 files; PNG, JPG and Gif. Here are some example steps from my favorite “free online tools for image optimization”.

Online Image Optimizer- GIF, JPG, and PNG

• Step 1. Enter the url of an image or upload one from your computer
• Step 2. Select your out put file type then press “optimize” button.
• Step 3. Select a good quality one that is a small file size, right click and save then upload to your server.

Improve Site by GifBot TM

GifBot is the tool for ultimate balancing act graphics versus load time. There are 4 steps below:-

• 1. Enter the URL of the image you would like to optimize. Or enter a Web page address and we’ll list all the images on that page. Or select an image file on your computer to upload.
• 2. Enter your email address.
• 3. Select output format. Besides optimizing your graphics, GIFBot can change the format of your image. Tell us whether you’d like your slimmed-down images to be in GIF or JPEG format.
• 4. Run your test. GIFBot is safe to use. We change nothing on your Web site. Click “Test Now” button to start optimizing.

After these steps you will get results that compare quality, file size, how it saves, and most important download time. These features are similar to the features of power graphic software’s like photoshop.

So many free image compression tools are provided on the internet. Your first step for reducing your image file size is to use the free graphics optimization tools that you are familiar with and can speed up your site and got more traffic. I hope this article is useful and will make life easier for you.

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