When uploading images to your website, it is extremely important to optimise them BEFORE you upload them to your website.
Here are the instructions on how to optimise images that you want to upload.
1. OPTIMISE IMAGE DIMENSIONS
Most Desktop screensize is 1920px, so a general rule of thumb is to never let your image width be wider that 1920px.
- Important: if you can, optimise for smaller sizes, because smaller size will help your website load faster
2. OPTIMISE IMAGE FORMAT
We recommend .jpeg format or .webp format, which is suitable for web use and it does not contain non-relevant information.
- Important: .jpg and .webp images are smaller in size and will help your website run faster
2. OPTIMISE IMAGE SIZE
Size should be as small as possible, when you can still maintain the quality you want to show on your website.
- Important: A general max image size on a website for a 1920px image width should be around 200kb
A GREAT OPTIMISATION TOOL
A very useful tool that we recommend to use when optimising images before upload is Compressor - it is a completely free tool, that will drastically reduce the size of you images, while still maintain quality.
Link: https://compressor.io/