Adobe Fireworksįireworks is my favorite web image editor because of the unique feature to have bitmap and vector elements in a single file. The result is a smaller file with a file-size of 95KB. In our example we used the preset “High Quality” which is equal to 60% quality. If you use the “Save for web…” function it’s possible to create a web optimized version from your image that is small enough and has a quality which is good enough for your website. For this article we compare 4 ways to compress our example photo (original file-size 393KB): Adobe Photoshop Your favorite image editor should have some function to down-size your images. If you build your website, you should compress your photos, banners and most other web elements. There is also some other reason why you should care about file sizes: Bandwidth, if your website has many visitors, every saved KB of bandwidth you save will lower web hosting expenses. Google will not remove “slower” websites, but together with all the other ranking factors is your website’s speed something you should think about. Update: Since 2011 is the page speed an criteria how Google ranks websites. In this article we show several ways to compress photos and JPEG images for your website. One of the “slow” parts of your website are the images. Even if internet connections becoming faster and faster, it’s still important to keep your website as fast as possible.
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