How to compress JPEG to desired size?
Compressing JPEG images can be a big boost to your website ranking. The new SEO techniques lays critical emphasis on the speed of the website. This is also an important parameter in the Google Speed page test. Images with large sizes could have significant impact to 2 important parameters i.e. Last Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Content Paint (FCP) Therefore, it is important to ensure that we have images with the right sizes and quality on the websites. There are different mechanism which can be used to compress JPEG Images
1. Use online websites
There are many available websites which can be used for online compression. For e.g. refer the following
a. https://miniimagesvideos.com
• Step 1
Click on the upload button. This will pop up a select dialog which can be used to select the required file. If you are on desktop then you can drag – drop multiple files on the upload section
• Step 2
The site will run multiple algorithms in the backend and will produce an output with compressed image
Click on the download link button below thumbnail image to download the compressed image. Please note the output could be 3 different compressed files within a single zip file
The site can be used for multiple compression requirement. The compression level can yield results upto 90% compression level. But ensure to compare the quality of the output with the original images. In our experiments we did not find any significant change in quality. We were able to use all our images for our websites. Many images were compressed from 1 MB to 100KB or 50KB
b. https://compressjpeg.in
• Step 1
The steps are like the same as mentioned for the first site However, the compression level can be higher
2. Develop platform for compression
There are multiple software which can be build for compression techniques. For e.g. mozjpeg for Mozilla is an important for compression images. The results from mozjpeg are quick. On similar lines “guetzli” is an important release from Google. The results from butteraugli are very impressive
3. Conclusion
The image compression improved the LCP and FCP for our website by 70%. The score on google speed test improved from 30 to 95
Compressing JPEG images can be a big boost to your website ranking. The new SEO techniques lays critical emphasis on the speed of the website. This is also an important parameter in the Google Speed page test. Images with large sizes could have significant impact to 2 important parameters i.e. Last Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Content Paint (FCP) Therefore, it is important to ensure that we have images with the right sizes and quality on the websites. There are different mechanism which can be used to compress JPEG Images
1. Use online websites
There are many available websites which can be used for online compression. For e.g. refer the following
a. https://miniimagesvideos.com
Click on the upload button. This will pop up a select dialog which can be used to select the required file. If you are on desktop then you can drag – drop multiple files on the upload section
• Step 2
The site will run multiple algorithms in the backend and will produce an output with compressed image
b. https://compressjpeg.in
The steps are like the same as mentioned for the first site However, the compression level can be higher
2. Develop platform for compression
There are multiple software which can be build for compression techniques. For e.g. mozjpeg for Mozilla is an important for compression images. The results from mozjpeg are quick. On similar lines “guetzli” is an important release from Google. The results from butteraugli are very impressive
3. Conclusion
The image compression improved the LCP and FCP for our website by 70%. The score on google speed test improved from 30 to 95
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