What a great post, Craig, with so much useful information. I've bookmarked to go back to some of the recommended sites.

Carol Williams good morning, Carol... my recommendation for your Second Chance Saturday post. Great information for so many.

Very interesting post.  I have a lot to learn, for sure!  Thank you.

Wow, a lot of great information here again, Craig. I do resize to the 700 width, but I'm guessing there is more here for me to digest. I will be back. 

Good morning Craig. 
You are so generous with your knowledge and we could, literally, Feature every one of your posts!  Slow page loads are a kiss of death when I'm reading posts.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Great information.

Thanks for posting about squoosh.app - very nice.
Wasn't familiar with that one.

This is very valuable information you are sharing, Craig.  And, it answered a couple questions I had about compression and optimization.

CONGRATULATIONS Craig, on having this blog FEATURED in the Old Farts Club group!  

Good morning Craig Daniels -  so many bad images out there and people do not know how to fix them.  You have a great tutorial here.

Hi Craig Daniels,

My husband does all my photography and uses raw images and adjusts them as needed. MLS - about 1200px wide and blogs - 700px wide.  

Like you said, generally, you can't tell the difference until you zoom in. That is when it can be a noticeable difference. Having a master copy in raw format is very important and knowing how the image is going to be used is also important. 

Thanks for this useful tutorial, Craig. Seems I could do more with my images than I am curently doing. I'll have to review this again.

Jeff

What great information, Craig. Thank you for all your hard work. I tried your suggestions and I did it! Yay! Love working with you!

Craig you need to teach us rocks how to swim more often:)with that said I need to revisit those darn pictures:)Endre

Hi Craig!  A near and dear post to heed...I had been told in a guru class on WP that 50KB was the maximum you should have for your pics in Wordpress sites...do you think that still holds?  Always appreciate your posts.

Have always been soooo impressed with your knowledge about all this tech stuff! I can ALWAYS learn something somewhere about something. So to keep on top of all this takes real skill!

I need to start doing this, my website pages load slow where my photos are not optimized. Thanks for the links too!

On my WordPress blog, I use 320-pixel width for images.  That is for quick loading for all users, including small-screen smartphones.

I use the free Smush plugin to compress images.

On AR today, I saw people are still loading 2 MB high-resolution large-sized photos at the top of their blog posts, clueless on this topic.

Maybe AR should flag large-sized images to warn the blogger.

Google will be penalizing the SEO for web pages that are too slow to load. It creates a bad User Experience (UX), wasting time waiting for a page to load.