The question “why is it important to have a website which loads fast” is quite common and comes to everyone’s mind. The time which the page takes for loading affects a few important factors which have a direct impact on the success of the website.
- Rate of conversion is the first important point
- The SEO ranking is the another important factor
As it may be seen in the guidelines of Google webmaster, the optimization of page loading is the best solution for getting your website on top of the SEO rankings. On the other hand, a website which loads quickly is user friendly for the visitors. It would have definitely happened to you that you would have left a website after a couple of minutes after realizing that it is too slow. This happens to a lot of people. But, there are a number of ways of speeding up the website for improving the rankings and keeping the visitors on the website.
Measure the speed of the website
You need to check the present performance of the website before optimizing it. This may be the initial stage for you to compare the results after end of the improvements.
There’re various websites which help the visitors in measuring the performance of the website.
Most popular ones these days are:
- Slow
- Insights of the Google Page speed
- Pingdom tools
- GTmetrix
Once you have tested the website with the insights tool of Google Page Speed, you would get your score as well as some useful tips for optimizing it:
To compress Images, Run Bulk Action
Images are quite important for any website. In every case, the images can be easily optimized. There are a number of tips which you need to follow while using them in the pages:
- You should insert large pictures and scale them with the help of HTML. It takes the time to browse to scales images and they also look worse than original ones.
- You should always consider optimizing the images. The applications such as Adobe Photoshop as well as online services such as Smush It provide easy to employ tools which help in reducing the size of the images without even lowering the quality of the images.
- You should also not add a large number of images in one single page. In case you have some article which has a number of pictures then you may split them into different pages.
- You may even consider the Run Bulk action
If you’re not happy with Joomla compressed images then go through original Images
The best part about image recycling plug-in of Joomla image optimization is that it is not important. In case due to some reason, the results do not satisfy you, then you may just click one button next to image for reverting to original. This helps in undoing all image optimization as well as actions of compression. This will help in restoring the original image.
The biggest benefit of image recycle plug-in is its affordability. With the cost starting from $10 for optimization about 10,000 images, this is the best deal possible. And once the image quota expires, you may simply top it up. It is completely up to you to renew it or not.
Use Joomla Image Optimization
The easiest thing which can be done is ensuring that the images are properly optimized to be used on web. You should keep away from the huge images which load slowly. You need to optimize the size of images which you want to insert in Adobe Fireworks for high compression with least degradation of image.
Photoshop works, but it’s not the best tool for this job. Fireworks compress the images in a much better way. But you need to keep in mind that you should never upload images which have 1200*1200 pixels and resize it with the help of CSS or HTML.
The full size images load but you should try to get the resized images on fly by server. Just multiply this by 100 visitors and the server would be overloaded and may even go offline and even turn the speed of your Joomla into mush.
Result of using Joomla Image Optimization
Images are very important for any website and good images can help a lot in improving the quality of the content but it may even be the biggest reason for slowing down the speed of the website.
A few useful tips which you need to consider:
- You should images only when you just can’t do without them
- You should avoid inserting images which have a large size and you should not add multiple images in one single page
- Tools such as Adobe Photoshop help in reducing the file size of the images
On an average, approximately 56% of the weight of a website comprises of images. Thus, optimizing these images can help in reducing the loading time of the images and May also speed Joomla? Unfortunately, Joomla does not offer a built in image compression option. So, either you may compress as well as resize them in advance in any tool such as Photoshop or you may also do it online. For doing it online, you need Joomla extension like Easy image resize.
So these tips would help you in compressing the images and reducing the loading time of the website too.
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Thanks for this useful article. I have compressed images in bulk by following the method of this article.
Very useful article about image compression in Joomla undoubtedly