Friday, May 30, 2014

Improve WordPress default image quality

It’s well known that a picture says more than 1000 words so there are many webmasters or site owners who are using thousands of images at the site. Still there are people like artists or photographers who want to show off their work and use many images. Of-course that they want to show them in great quality, but WordPress by default cut the quality to 90%. The whole idea of compressing images is here to help your pages load faster and keep file sizes smaller. Anyway if you still miss that extra 10% this is topic for you. Let me explain you a thing!
First of all there are two elementary image extensions we use daily and these are JPG and PNG. Differences are enormous and let me show you why.The most common image extensions used online is JPG, mostly because they can apply heavy layers of compression and in process page will load faster. That’s great for your page visitors and also for SEO. But in process of compression you lose some of the picture quality which could be issue for you. PNG or (Portable Network Graphics) extension have much larger files and of-course have better quality, but problem is that your page will load a little bit slower.

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