Best Wordpress Image Optimization Plugins-2016

Images are very important part of your website because it attracts readers at the sametime you can explain most difficult concept in a single image instead of writing a full page.Human brains are designed to visualize things in the form of image.A good image can attract ton of peoples to your site, so you should take image seriously while writing a blog post.Common problem that you face when adding picture to your post is its size. High resolution image are bigger in size and it dramatically slow down your website loading speed and it also affect your seo rankings. Recent studies show, people loves quick responsive fast loading website even reducing one second can increase your conversion rate exponentially. So the solution for this problem is optimising your image or super compressing your image without loosing quality. So i round up some of the best wordpress image optimization plugins for you . Let’s get started

Top Best Wordpress Image Optimization Plugins: 

WP Smush:

Wp Smush is a very popular image optimization tools in wordpress. Wp Smush can optimize PNG, JPEG, and GIF image individually or bulk as per your wish. The free version of this plugin will compress image upto 1 MB and  50 images at bulk.

FEATURES:

• Optimize your images using advanced lossless compression techniques
• Set maximum width and height and large images will automatically scale before added to your media library
• Process JPEG, GIF and PNG image files
• Auto smush your attachments individually in media library, or in bulk 50 attachment at a time
• Smush all standard web sized image 1 MB or smaller
• Smush images with no slowdown using wpmu dev’s fast, reliable Smush API
• View advanced compression stats per attachment and library totals.

WP Smush Pro Features:

• Super smush your images with our intelligent multi-pass lossy compression.Get from 2x - 10x more compression than lossless compression with almost no noticeable quality loss
• Get even better lossless compression .They  try multiple methods to squeeze every last byte of your images
• Smush images upto 32MB.you can smush  any image , even  one’s that aren’t web optimized
• Bulk smush all your images with one click
• Keep a backup of original un smushed images in case you want to restore later
• 24/7 premium support
• Includes hummingbird pagespeed booster, uptime monitoring and security hardening and many more
  
  
  EWWW Image Optimizer:
  Ewww image optimizer automatically compress your image as you upload your image.It can optimize your image and also convert you image to the file format that will produce smallest image size.
  Features:
  • Bulk optimization
  • Skip previously optimized image
  • Wp image editor(all image created by build-in wp image editor class will be automatically optimized)
  • Optimize everything else
  • webP images( it creates webP version of your image and enables you to serve even small image to supported browser)
  • WP-CLI (bulk image optimization process from command line)
  • FooGallery (all images in FooGallery are automatically optimized)
  • It also supports NextGEN Gallery,NextCellent Gallery,GRAND Flash Album Gallery and many more
  
  
  Cw image optimizer:
  Cw image optimizer automatically losslessly compress your image as you upload to your blog and it also optimize the existing image.Unlike wp smush plugin your image won’t be uploaded to third party server,your files are optimized using the linux littleutils image optimizer tools. So you don’t need to worry about the Smush privacy policies and terms of service because your image never leave the server
  
  
  
  Seo friendly images:
  
  
  Seo friendly  images  plugin automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes for seo purpose. If your images do not have alt and title already , seo friendly images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.
  Alt attributes is important part of search engines optimization. It describes your images to search engines and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for the match.
  Title attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the images.
  
  
  Shortpixel image optimizer
  Shortpixel image optimizer makes your website load faster by resizing/rescaling and compressing the images. Shortpixel image optimizer do both lossy and lossless image compression available for all common image types and it also do compress pdf files.
  Features:
  • 24h support directly from the developers
  • Compress jpg,png,gif and pdf documents
  • Optimize thumbnails as well as features images
  • Featured images can be rescaled before being optimized.No need for additional plugins
  • CMYK to RGB conversion
  • Skip already optimized images
  • Easily test lossy/lossless versions of the images
  • Great for photographers keep or remove EXIF data from your images
  • No file size limit
  • Works well with both https and http website
  • 40 days optimization reports with all image details and overall statistics and so many features
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Responsive images by Pixtulate:
  
  
  The responsive images plugin connects wordpress sites to the on demand image services of Pixtulate. Pixtulate image optimization , dramatically speeds up websites with image content . the service scales, crops and optimize responsive images on demand using Pixtulate’s servers.
  
  
  
  Compress JPEG & PNG images:
  Makes your websites faster by optimizing your JPEG and PNG images. This plugin automatically optimizes all your images by integrating with the popular images compression services tinyJPG and tinyPNG
  
  
  FEATURES
  • Automatically optimizes images on upload
  • Optimize individual images already in your media library
  • Easy bulk optimization of your existing media library
  • Resize large original images by setting a maximum width and height
  • Preserve copyrights metadata creation date and gps location in the original images
  • Select which thumbnail sizes of an image may be optimized and many more …
  
  
  
  BJ lazy load :
  Lazy load makes your site more faster and saves bandwidth. This plugin replaces all your post images,post thumbnails, gravatar images and content iframes with a placeholder and loads the content as it gets close to enter the browser window when the visitor scrolls the page.Since it works with iframes, it also covers embedded videos from you tube, viemo etc. you can also lazy load other images and iframes in your theme,by using a simple filter. Non - javascript visitors get the original element in noscript.
  
  
  
  
  Bonus:
  Best websites for image compressions
  
  
  • http://compressjpeg.com/
  • http://jpeg-optimizer.com/
  • http://www.imageoptimizer.net/Pages/Home.aspx
  • https://tinyjpg.com/
  • https://compressor.io/
  • http://optimizilla.com/
  • http://www.resize-photos.com/
  Conclusion:
  
  Thats it guys I hope it serves you well thank you for visiting Have a Nice Day