Web Design
While more people continue to upgrade their internet service to broadband or high-speed, there are still plenty of people with dial up internet connections out there. This means you need to keep loading time in mind when designing your website. Even with broadband and high-speed internet, loading time is still a concern as a website that doesn't load instantly can make visitors a little nervous. It can reflect a website that isn't optimized or even a website that is neglected, which can adversely affect your business. This article looks at an easy way to increase the loading speed of your website with image optimization.
Image Editing SoftwareWhen it comes to image optimization, image editing software is your friend. For the best image optimization, choose image editing software like Photoshop. If Photoshop is a bit pricey for you, look at software that will perform image optimization by removing unnecessary information from your images while reducing the file size of your image without affecting the quality of your image's appearance. You can also find free software online called image compressors that will also reduce the file size of your website's images.
PhotoshopThe best software for image optimization, Photoshop presents a dialog box that allows you to choose the quality of your image when saving an image as a JPG. Setting your image at a quality of 8 instead of 10 will usually preserve the look of your image while offering excellent image optimization for fast loading website pages.
Saving your images as a PNG will give you the smallest file size with the best image quality. GIF files also offer excellent image optimization as in this file Photoshop will not save colors that aren't in your image. While this works well, the appearance of the image isn't usually as high quality as a JPG or PNG file.
Image optimization is important, even in today's world of high-speed internet connections so make sure your website loads quickly with image optimization.