Compression: making pictures easier to load

For visitors of your Web site it’s important if the pictures they see there are as light as possible, so they’ll load as quickly as possible. If a picture is big that’s one thing (w x h in px), but it shouldn’t be too heavy (weight in kb), especially not for those who are using their cell phones. Thankfully, there are quite a few tools to improve the compression of a picture and one of them is this online one with a friendly panda:

If you don’t want to make your picture smaller but you do want to make it lighter,
you can use tinyjpg.com for  JPEG/JPG
and tinypng.com for PNG

With some pictures the improvement will be bigger than with other but I nearly always use this service.