How & Why to Optimise Your Images

How & Why to Optimise Your Images

Images make the internet far more appealing and the same is true for your website. Relevant and quality images help you to stand out from the crowd. Relevant images depend on your niche, but quality images share one thing in common. They are as large as they need to be but no larger. This is the art of image optimisation and on this page, I will help you understand how and why to optimise your images.

Why Optimise Images?

People don’t like slow, laggy websites. In fact, Google reports that most people give up and leave when a web page takes longer than 3 seconds to load.

And images are a common cause of slow websites.

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