On any typical website, smaller images = faster loading time and lesser bandwidth consumed. It is really important to find an optimal balance between image quality and image size. Anything "un-optimized" image will parasitically suck your bandwidths and cost you a bomb if you are paying for these bandwidths (like me). If you really liked to reduce images file size and doing it the quick and easy way, I thought you should know Smush.it
Smush.it is a really useful webs service I recently came to know. It optimizes your images online, and they do it for free. Smush.it does it in 3 different ways, you can either:
- Upload a bunch of pictures in your browser, or
- Provide an URL link, or
- Do optimization on the fly on any website with Smush.it Firefox Extension or bookmarklet.
There’s also a optimization summary report comparing the before and after compression, in terms of bytes and %.
Smush your images now?
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Posted by hongkiat in Web 2.0 , at 02.11.09 |
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Comments
Simon Sigurdhsson February 11th, 2009
Cool, although I find it easier to just use pngout locally.
ReplyGennice February 12th, 2009
Excellent tool. It’s just what I needed these days. I really have to reduce bandwith on my blog as it grows and this might come handy.
Thanks for sharing!
Replyhongkiat February 12th, 2009
@Simon Looks like PNGOUT is also quite nifty. The only limitation is probably it only compress PNG files.
@Gennice Anytime :-)
Replyinsic February 12th, 2009
this is awesome service. Ive tried it and it really works
ReplyRahul February 13th, 2009
This is a really nice and simple online tool for image optimization. cool.
ReplyAtlanta georgia real estate February 13th, 2009
Smush it works great. I have optimized most of my real estate website with it. Thanks Hongkiat!
ReplyTope Brown February 19th, 2009
What anexcellent tool.it is Of norival
ReplyShahriat Hossain April 25th, 2009
It’s not only a image optimizer but also a bandwidth optimizer, thanks for sharing dude ;)
Replyreal estate web 2.0 June 28th, 2009
Image optimization online is a new technique. I would like to study it.
ReplyMichael Garmahis September 18th, 2009
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.
Replyanalsexizle November 17th, 2009
Some good ones in there.
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