When it comes to website’s speed, images are the most important factor behind website loading time. Google and other search engines give high preference to web pages that are highly optimized for speed.
As a larger number of people have started to use mobile and tablets to browse websites, users hate to wait for websites which take more time to load. Based on current technology trend, it’s better to enhance loading time of website before you lose your customers.
ShortPixel
ShortPixel plugin is simple to use which comes with a clean interface and useful features. You need to subscribe to ShortPixel to get the API Key and get the plugin going.
Upon subscription, you receive 100 free credits/month. While it isn’t as many as those offered by Tiny PNG they should be enough for the average WP blogger. Also, this plugin only counts the images they succeeded optimizing by at least 5%. Otherwise, no credits are charged.
Compress JPEG & PNG
What I like about Tiny PNG is that they have the option to optimize only certain image sizes, they offer the option to resize the original image (it can lead to great savings), and they have a generous free monthly plan (500 images/month for free).
WP Smush.it
This plugin is good enough for compressing your WordPress images automatically without depressing the quality of the image. Once installed will automatically compress all existing images and newly uploaded images behind the scenes.
WP Smush Pro is one of the best WordPress Plugin, which helps in ranking your site higher in search engines. With the Smush Pro, the quality of the images remains the same, but the size gets compressed by ten times than its actual size.
SEO Friendly Images
This plugin is for optimizing your images for search engines.
It helps you to get more organic traffic from search engines. It automatically adds alt and title attribute to images.
Alt attribute is the primary thing which is seen by search engines to find images for any keyword. You can use this button plugin with WP Smush.it or Lazy Load plugin for complete solution.
Bulk Resize Media
WordPress allows you to upload heavy images but its not good for your server and load time of your website.
This plugin automatically resizes huge images and makes sure maximum upload size is respected for all uploaded images. The plugin also works with multi site to allow admins to control the image uploads
Source: Inkthemes
