Face it, we live in an instant gratification society and NOBODY likes to wait for pages to load.
I’m as bad about this as the next person…send me to a website and if the page takes too long to load, I’m outta there.
Well, I’m preaching to the choir. My blog page was taking a extremely long time to load. Yikes! Houston, we have a problem.
I tested our blog site at http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ and also at Google: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
First report was pretty discouraging. It took over 14 seconds for my blog to load.
Recommended fixes were given and first on the list was the suggestion to optimize images, to compress the images.
Now, if you aren’t used to using Google to find answers to whatever solution you need … start now. I searched for plug ins, reviewed what was said about several and chose to add the EWWW Image Optimizer to my blog.
Oh by the way, I’m not a techy person. I know enough to get around on the internet but not enough to get into programming and understanding all the features of this plug-in.
But it was simple enough to use it for exactly what I needed today – get my images optimized to prevent interested readers enduring the waiting for pages to load.
Here’s how I used this plug in to first compress all the images already on my blog.
This produced some amazing results. Now my blog loads in under 3 seconds which is optimal for viewers. I’m a happy camper!
You can get more information about the EWWW Image Optimizer Plugin here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/.
Check out your blog load speed … see what comes up. If you haven’t optimized your images, you’ll definitely want to install the EWWW Image Optimizer.
Got a need for speed! 🙂
Trisha
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