Comments on: How & Why to Optimize Image Size

By: Michael Garmahis

Michael Garmahis — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:26:21 +0000

Check out ultimate guide How to Optimize Images for Web with all tools and techniques for PNG, JPEG and GIF optimization in one place. Free Photoshop action for download is included.

By: Herbalife

Herbalife — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:52:03 +0000

Smush.it…I have yet to use this…thanx

I usually use dreamweaver coupled with Illustrator and do use the save as web trick.

I sometime place a placeholder via dreamweaver to know exactly what size i want to hit. Love this site, Knowledge is power!

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:26:23 +0000

Good stuff. Image size is something that is often overlooked.

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:48:05 +0000

The web-based tools should work on MAC just fine. Photoshop can be on MAC either:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=39&platform=Macintosh

As for the spyware, not as far as I know. Please, anyone, share your bad experience if any…

By: TheConsumerJournal

TheConsumerJournal — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:34:27 +0000

Are the aforementioned photo optimization softwares compatible with MAC? Also, do these products introduce spyware. (I’d like to share this information with my audience at TheConsumerJournal.com) Thanks.

By: Carter Edsall

Carter Edsall — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:22:55 +0000

A very helpful topic. Anybody out there have any general guidelines for Flash files (SWF)? I know smaller is better for any media, but I hadn’t considered that file size might actually inhibit Google crawls. My site features several portfolio galleries of still images, all of which are automatically optimized when imported into Flash.

By: Amadou M. Sall

Amadou M. Sall — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:52:03 +0000

Ann is awesome, as usual. I’ve tweeted it and asked my followers to retweet :-)

By: Kruti

Kruti — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:15:23 +0000

Thanks Ann! Adding to the above points, one can also use thumbnails. Thumbnails are miniature versions of a picture that are hyperlinked to its actual size version. They load faster, and by clicking on it, visitors will be able to see the actual size version. Not exact on-image optimization but just another way to ensure faster load time and add to optimization efforts :).

By: Tag44

Tag44 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:10:00 +0000

Hmmm pretty good info, even i like to save the image after making certain change in save for web rather than only save option.

By: Lohith

Lohith — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:20:07 +0000

@Seemyspots, Yes just few months back I was talking about quality of images with a web designer, he said to slice image for better quality, surprisingly he is using coreldraw that is supposed to do for print media. I am not sure about loading time….