Webmaster Tip – Tools to Optimize Your Images

Images play very important part of any website of blog. But sometimes, the images increase load time of your website due to the size of the images. To ensure that images do not effect the loading time of your website or blog you need to optimize them.

Optimizing your images involves image resizing and resolution reduction, which makes the image size smaller and faster to load. I have compiled a list of some useful tools to optimize your images:

1. Smush.It: Smush.it is a tool that uses optimization techniques specific to images format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files. From this tool you can optimize the images without changing or loosing their visual quality. Smush.It WordPress Plugin also Available.

2. Online Image Optimizer: It lets you easily optimize your gifs, animated gifs, jpgs, and pngs, so they load as fast as possible on your site. Furthermore, you can easily convert from one image type to another.

3. RIOT: It’s also known as Radical Image Optimization Tool, is a free image resizing software, that lets you resize images without any loss of quality. You can resize images of any popular format including JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PSD, ICO, RAS, HDR etc.

4. PNGGauntlet: PNGGauntlet is a tool that uses Ken Silverman’s PNGOUT command line utility to optimize PNG files. Many PNG files output by popular graphics software packages like Photoshop or Fireworks are not as small as they could be. PNGGauntlet squeezes the last bit of size out of them.

5. Free Image Optimizer: Using this free online service, you can resize, compress and optimize your image files. Using the service is as easy as clicking of button. Optimized images are better. They are more suitable for web pages, email attachments, or even storage on your disk.

There are lots of image optimization tool available on internet, I have selected the most popular tools. If your favorite image optimization tool isn’t on the list above, please share it.