Better WordPress Performance with WP Smush.it
I came across Alex Dunae’s WP Smush.it for wordpress while doing research on how to optimize blog page load times and installed the plug-in the other night and tested it. I can tell bloggers that if you use wordpress and you upload images to your pages, this plug-in will improve your page load times and reduce the footprint of images on your blog.
You install the plug-in and click on your “Media Library” section and you can see a new column called “Smush.it” this uses the Yahoo service to compress images while losing very little image quality, I can’t even notice the difference in image by looking at it, even though this plug-in reduces the image footprint by 33.6% in some cases.
My page load times on pages with large images was improved greatly from 5 seconds to 3.5 seconds just after Smushing the images on that post. This performance gain is outstanding and this plug-in is one of my highest recommended ones for WordPress bloggers who upload photos and images to their blogs.
-Dragon Blogger
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