WordPress is the most famous blogging platform in the world and the main reason behind this popularity is the huge store of plugins. Today I’m going to deal with plugins that will help you optimize the images that you upload to your blog.
But first of all there will be some tips and important things to know about Image Optimization.
First question that comes…
Why Image Optimization is Important?
Image optimization is very important as these images plays a major role in blog’s performance and growth.
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Image optimization improves blog’s loading speed and thus will not make your readers wait for long to read your content.
- Image optimization will give your images more exposure in the Best Image Search Engines. Thus, you can get more traffic.
How to work with image optimization?
I always hear about “Alt-tag”, is that something to work with?
Oh! you got it right, but that’s not all.
Then what actually is Image Optimization?
- Giving the right title to your image is the first thing.
- Adding the right alt tag is the most important work.
- Compressing images to right size is also important.
- Installing good plugins to work with image optimization.
As we are talking about plugins so I want to introduce with some good plugins which will help you to work with image optimization and make your blog more SEO optimized and more efficient.
So here I come up with the best of the best Image Optimization Plugins for WordPress:
Imsanity uses WP built-in-image scaling functions and automatically resizes uploaded images to a configured size. The plugin is configurable with size and quality of the image you upload to your blog. Imsanity also provides a bulk resize option to selectively resize previously uploaded images to clear up disk space. If you want the resize feature only then you can also use the “Bulk Smush.it” plugin as it has Yahoo! Image Compressor feature.
Advanced Lazy Load plugin is used by Avi on SkyHiT BloG and so you see a fast loading speed. This plugin first loads the content only and loads the image only when the image comes in the viewpoint. This plugin doesn’t need any configurations. You just need to install it and forget. It will take care of the rest.
The PB Responsive Images automatically reformats the images into a format similar to the picture proposed by the Responsive Images Community Group on w3.org. PB Responsive Images plugin converts the image to a size according to blog reader’s screen resolution. You’ll have to customize the configuration to fit your theme best as the default configuration provides the image sizes for the Twenty Eleven theme.
This image optimization plugin automatically reduce the image size and improve performance using Linux image optimization programs without losing the quality. This plugin also optimizes the images that are previously uploaded in the past. This plugin also provides bulk optimization option if you have a lot of images to optimize.
Hammy plugin uses the new WP 3.5 image code to generate resized images and provides most suitable images for your content area depending on content width for a better experience, especially for mobile, tablet devices.
This is not a big list of image optimization plugins, but is a list with the best plugins for the said job. I didn’t want to make a list of 20-30 plugins because many newbies get confused with which one to use. But yes, if you want us to add your favourite image optimization plugin then just name it below and tell us why you like it.
Over to you…
What do you think about Image Optimization? Which is your favourite image optimization plugin?
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I love the idea of the plugins to increase the speed of the website, advanced lazy load. #5 looks pretty good too. Are these free or paid versions of plug-ins?
Hi! Lisa, these plugins are free to use. Please get them through the download links.
Yes @Lisa all these are free to use and can easily be downloaded and used in your wp blog ◕‿◕
Wow this is an awesome post on image optimization, it’s very unique. Cool tips and plugins. Thanks.
Welcome @asmita Thanks for stopping and dropping your comment ◕‿◕
I totally agree with you.
Image optimization is very important. Your list of Image Optimization Plugins are great, I already use Imsanity WP Plugin.
Thanks for the complements @sandi ◕‿◕
+1 For Imsanity plugin.
Really helpful post but tell me which plugin is better Advanced Lazy Load or CW Image Optimization.
Hi! Akhilesh, just want to say that both the plugins have their own benefits. LL speeds up loading of your content by halting image loading, whereas CW reduces image size and speeds up loading.
Hello Manuel,
I am already using W3 Total Cache to optimize the images and make them load faster, can I use any of the above plugins along with W3TC, if yes which will be the best of them.
Hi Joseph,
Thanks for sharing this list. I’m studying the list to see which is most needed. However, which do you advice first?
Hi @enstine
I don’t have any special consideration for each of these plugins. Each of these is has special purposes which you could see in the description given.
Here you discussed about WordPress image optimization plugin but can you share blogger image optimization extensions or plugin, which we use for image in blogger because without any extension and plugin. Still, I am getting lots of traffic but I want more traffic from images. Kindly share your views on that.
I don’t think so there is any blogger plugins for image optimization. Only think you can do is do some tactics to optimize
Now that I have launched mu own blog, this post holds so much importance for me coz this is one area, I was yet to read and learn earlier. I love following your Blog Avi. Following you on twitter, liked SHB on FB and your circle in G+ is also doing great!! keep blogging Always
Thanks for stopping by… Hope this tools and tips will help you in your bloggin’ ◕‿◕
I have seen there are some new blogger, they don’t know about what is the important of optimize the image and i hope this post will help for them.
Hello @Mohd Thanks for dropping your view here !! I have also found many bloggers who do not consider optimizing their images a bit, and its a major think in many ways. So I thought of helping some with some simple & good tips and tools.
Being a technology evangelist who is in constant look out for new and interesting tech developments I must say this was an interesting article. I’ll certainly try it out myself. Thanks.
Welcome Techchunks
Thanks for dropping your comment. DO visit again !
Smush.it is obsolete and useless tool. It’s a pity so many webmasters still use and recommend it.
Your logo image logo.png, 36.13 KB
- compressed with smush.it: 34.84 KB (-3.6%)
- compressed with compresspng.com: 9.4 KB (-74%)
No visible difference.
Debil thanks for dropping your review I know that Smush.it is obsolete and thus have not used in the list
Hmm, the lists and descriptions above are all compelling. I don’t intend using any of the above plugin though but I guess they are worth knowing about them.
we can also make use of jquery image lazy load…it is also a very nice plugin to lazy load all the images on the blog including main post, sidebar and footer with a little jquery effect! thx for the collection manual!
Cheers,
Gautam
I’m using Lazy Load plugin and its working fine. Need to checkout remaining plugins mentioned here. Will get back here with my feedback.
Awesome and much useful plugins. Indeed, optimizing images improves blog’s loading speed and gives exposure in the image search results. Well, I only know about lazy load plugin, but it’s good to know more useful plugins. Thanks Manual for sharing and tweeted
Good list of wordpress plugin to optimize the images.
I am also using the Advanced Lazy Load plugin. It helped me to improve the site speed.
Nice post but I don’t prefer using plugins for everything. Just my opinion!
Great list of plugins but I think they’re all for optimization, while at some point in the early part of the post you mention about alt-tag which is more to SEO optimization. Performance optimizations (like what all the plugins above offer) isn’t the same thing as SEO optimization.
Just my 2 cents.
These tips are really amazing and it is perfect for optimization. As i recently heard that WordPress has nice plugins for automatic optimization…. !
Image optimization tips to follow are here. This is very helpful. Thanks.