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Better WordPress Performance with WP Smush.it

Posted by: dragonblogger  //  Category: blogging

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.

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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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Written by dragonblogger (1110 Articles Published)

Working in the IT Industry for over 10 years and specializing in web based technologies. Dragon Blogger has unique insights and opinions to how the internet and web technology works. An Avid movie fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.

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