Website Kit Manual D8 2020

Optimizing images One of the biggest bottlenecks in downloading a website is the size of the graphics. And, people leave your website if it fails to load in less than three sec- onds . You probably already know to make your pictures as small on the screen as possible. After all, those pictures you took with your library ’ s digital camera are absolutely huge, right? You wouldn ’ t want to inflict added download time on unsuspecting website visi- tors. No doubt you ’ ve been using some kind of software to make your pictures visually smaller. But this is only half of the job . Reducing the file size of your images makes web pages load faster. If you take a look at the picture below (from WebResizer.com), you can see that there is no dis- cernable difference in the visual size of the pictures. Nonetheless, the optimized ver- sion has a significantly smaller file size. Resizing your pictures so they are visually smaller is one thing—but that ’ s not the only thing you need to do. An image optimizing tool removes unnecessary pixels from digital images. The human eye doesn ’ t notice the difference, but this type of tool can significantly reduce the amount of time it takes for an image to download from your site. Many professional - end image editors (e.g., Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro) have built - in functions or add - ons that can do this type of reformatting. However, most people don ’ t own these and they have a very steep learning curve. There are free tools that allow you to optimize images: WebResizer Compressor.io Optimizilla ( does images in batches as well)