Ep 206 – Image Optimization: How to Get the Images Right from the Beginning

Images are no doubt a very big part of websites. Whether the image is for content purposes to illustrate the meaning of the page, or for decorative/design purposes to make it look better— images are essential. But images can also slow down your website more than anything else. However that doesn't mean you remove all the images from your website. With proper optimization, you can have lots of great images AND have a fast loading Divi website too! In this episode of Divi Chat, we discuss image optimization and why it's one of the most crucial steps to speed up Divi. Plus, we discuss our preferred image optimization tools too! Join the DC panel this week as we share our tried & true tips for image optimization. Hosts Present: Stephanie Hudson - FocusWP / FB Tim Strifler – Divi Life / Divi Popup / Divi Mega Menu Sarah Oates – Endure Web Studios / FB / @endureweb Resources Mentioned: Dr. Browns: http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html SRCSET: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_source_srcset.asp https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/07/wordpress-5-8-adds-webp-support/ Affinity: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/ Jpeg Mini: https://www.jpegmini.com/ Tinypng: https://tinypng.com/ Squash: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/squash-web-image-compression/id1152443474?mt=12 Imagify: https://imagify.io/ WPSmush: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ Ewww: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/ Stackpath: https://www.stackpath.com/ Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/ Bunny CDN: https://bunny.net/ Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/divichatpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/divichatpodcast/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/divichat/ Website: https://divi.chat/ Leave a (5 ⭐) Review: https://ratethispodcast.com/divichat Join us Live on Youtube or Facebook every Tuesday @ 🐓 7 am Sydney (Wednesday) ☀️ 2 pm Los Angeles ⛅️ 5 pm New York 🌙 10 pm London Or Listen Anytime @ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/divi-chat/id1166016136?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UwghkH9OErcrihKWyXOGH?si=4aZ1HoezQuyr7YjKV1XLxw YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/divichat Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Icjg3enorxbhnhyiqumvyi23rxi?t=Divi_Chat Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9kaXZpLmNoYXQvZmVlZC9wb2RjYXN0Lw%3D%3D Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/divi-chat Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/toM6 Castbox: https://castbox.fm/x/13d2P Divi Facebook Groups: Divi Theme Users – https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiviThemeUsers/ Divi Theme Help & Share – https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiviHelpAndShare/ Divi Web Designers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/diviwebdesigners/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ji0EKZ1YVo