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Have you taken note of your image sizes? A guide on image compression and how to do it

18 November 2011

One of the most distressing moments in a computer professional’s life is when their mother tells them she wants to email them some photos. Unless you have a very high speed internet connection, this means your inbox will be backed up for the next hour as you download six image files that would barely fit on a CD.

We can blame the problem on the free availability of high speed broadband and near-infinite storage, or we can blame it on ignorance, but most people have no concept of what a megabyte actually is. When you ask them how big the image is, they will most likely say “about the size of the screen, maybe a bit narrower”.

Unfortunately, this ignorance of file sizes extends to people who build and own websites - if you didn’t grow up with a background in computers, and learnt how to build websites using free tools such as WordPress, then you might not be too savvy about speeding up your user experience.

Here are a few things to note, before we get to the actual process of compressing an image.

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