Now that you have uploaded the image to the server you will soon figure out that the image size is often too big. It is seen that heavy images often takes longer loading time. Therefore, it is very much necessary to compress the images for better loading.
If you are running a photography site you can edit the images in a professional photo editing tool. In this way you can preserve the quality of the image. However, if you are running a travel site or tech site you can compromise on some quality by using an Image Compression Plugin. The main advantage of using plugins is it automates your image compression stuff. This can save a lot of time.
Here are some plugins you can use for image compression
is one of the best image compression plugins. The main advantage of this plugin is it automatically optimizes your image moment you upload it. Also, it offers bulk compression of images which make it easy for the user to optimize the images together in a short time. However, the image compression plugin doesn’t have different compression levels which means that the images compressed will be force to compress at the level set by the plugin.
WP Smush is one of the popular image compression plugin. This plugin is used to compress the image to the desired level depending on the compression level user want to be. This plugin also compresses the image on upload.
This plugin is based on a freemium model. It allows only 50 images to be compressed if you use the free version. However, if you use the premium version you will be able to bulk compression.
In addition to the above there are some more image optimization plugin. Eg, EWWW Image Optimizer, Compress JPEG & PNG Images, and Short Pixel Image Optimizer.
