Free Image Compression Tools to Boost Website Speed

We often take high-quality pictures using digital cameras or smartphones, but the sizes of these images are often very large, which causes difficulty in transferring these images over the Internet, or uploading them to various websites such as news sites or e-commerce sites

Also, the presence of images of large sizes leads to slow loading of the pages of the site, which may lead to alienation from visitors and thus the loss of many potential customers in the event that the site is specialized in e-commerce and contains a lot of product images.

It is worth noting that the large size of the images on websites also causes the site's ranking to appear in search engine results, because the site's loading speed is an important factor in improving visibility in SEO search engines.

When site managers and content makers search for tools to compress images, they fear damage to the quality of the images after compressing these tools, so today we will review 3 tools specialized in compressing images while maintaining their quality:

1- imagecomprossor:

Imagecomprossor.com - formerly known as Optimizella - allows you to compress a single image or a group of images at the same time while maintaining their quality, as follows:

•     Visit the site and click on the Upload Files button.
•     Choose the photos you want to compress from your computer (maximum 20 pictures at a time).

•     The program will start compressing images and after completion it will show you the percentage of compressing each image
•     Click the Download button at the bottom of each image to download it to your device, or click the Download All button under the images to download all the compressed photos into one compressed file.

It is worth noting that the rate of image compression through this site reaches an average of 70%, meaning that if you have an image of 1000 KB, you can compress it to a size of only 300 KB while maintaining its quality.

The site also has a tool to control the quality of the images after compressing them by reducing the number of colors in them, in the event that you want to reduce the size of the images again after compression, with the ability to review the effects that occur to the image after reducing its quality.

2- TinyPNG:

TinyPNG lets you compress images up to more than 70% of their original size while maintaining their quality and supports image compression in PNG and JPG formats. You can also compress up to 20 photos at a time.

TinyPNG is indicated as an Photoshop plugin so you can compress the images while saving them. And as an addition to WordPress sites.

3- Compressor.io website:

Compressor.io allows you to reduce the size of images up to 90% of their original size while maintaining high quality with almost no difference before and after compression. It also supports many PNG, JPEG, GIF, and SVG image formats.

This site also allows you to save compressed images to cloud services like: Google Drive or Dropbox, or on your device. But it does not allow compressing more than one image at a time.