Image Optimization or Photo optimization is a major method which helps to load web pages as fast as possible. Web designers wanted to maintain their web pages with high quality pictures and they want to load their pages fast. If you need to load your page fast, your web page images should be at small size. Any way, picture quality could varies depending on image memory size. If you want to do photo optimization properly, you need to follow some great tips as follows.
Image Resolution:
This is the first step you need to reduce to 72dpi. If you think to use a big size picture, you have to divide it into smaller images, and then insert those pictures back together on the page. The individual images will be load very much faster than the single large image to load.
The another prominent way of speedup your webpage loading time is to use JPEG Progressive property, or png or GIF interlaced. These image properties slow-up the image loading time, need to use hazy image which is clearer and sharper.
Height and width IMG attributes:
The HTML IMG tag says the browser to create a box of area of a specific size given by the designer to hold the graphic. If you failed in giving the height and width attributes of image, The browser should be waiting stage for images to load first before loading the rest of the web page.
Number of images:
The some of web designers push more images in their web pages. Because of this, the appearance of their web page is good, But it slows down the loading speed and increase webpage loading time of your page. Images consumes up to 40-50% of the page loading time. Using images frequently ensure faster download time and will prevent visitors leaving your site due to impatience.
Quality of image or photo:
Photo quality is defined by some factors purity of color, detail and photo clarity. You can use a graphic editor software like Photoshop to eliminate noise and any other unnecessary features. Many editors allow you to improve the clarity of image by sharpening edges and correcting red-eye feature.
Professional editors like Photoshop and Fireworks allows you to adjust color levels, change the background, and make many other changes to a image.
Photo optimization guidelines:
These are the suggestions, which are useful to optimize your web page images and fasten your page loading speed and also your website images downloading time.
- Have to change the image resolution to 72dpi
- Need to change graphical text to stylized text
- Recommended to crop images to the size required
- Modify the color depth of the image, if it will not disturb the quality of the image.
- Please Specify the actual height and width of your images in the image tags.
- Use thumbnails images when it necessary of your web page.
