Images

You may have heard the phrase a picture is worth a thousand words. But what happens when you realize that:
-You have thousands of pictures to sort and arrange.
-Worse, the pictures collected over the years, taken with different devices, and stored across multiple drives.
-Finally, they exist in different formats.
The result: You end up spending nearly 1,000 hours sorting them. I literally went down that path recently.
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Welcome to Day Two of my Blogging challenge. Wednesday is “Webby Wednesday” where I will write about matters related to website hosting, security, performance and of course content. In today’s post, I write about how I accidentally created an animated image of all the banners on this site! I was looking to convert all the banner images into WebP format using Imagemagick. The output was a flashy, animated image, like the gifs many of us love, and others love to hate. The image in question in posted at the end of this article for a `very specific reason` mentioned later.
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Introduction:Image Optimizing Service

In this post, I have used 20 different image compression and optimization services and compared their performance over a series of tests. This will help you in finding a possible answer to
“Which is the Best Image Optimization Service?”
Incidentally, this question came up more than a few times when I was researching to write the post on “7 Ways to Optimize Your Images for Websites“.

Have you ever wondered why you should compress (or reduce the size of) images on your site? Why do SEO experts attach so much importance to optimizing images for websites? After all, you want to display on your webpage the beautiful pictures you have taken in all their glory! But the downside of leaving images as “heavy” or uncompressed is that your site (or app) will load very slowly. I had written about how to use a CDN or content delivery network and a follow up post on the topic. You can consider the below post as a companion post because the theme is similar- how to load websites faster!

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