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10:42 am
April 20, 2014


colormefrugal

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Thank you so much to those who've mentioned GT Metrix.  Running that scan on my site was a huge eye-opener!  Images are a problem for me, but I've already removed the biggest offenders and I've got a little more work to do with the rest.  I'm still struggling to compress my own images (I took some of them through Photoshop and did the Save For Web as somebody suggested and it actually made them bigger!!), but I'm thinking I may just have to stop using my own images until I figure it out.  SmushIt does not seem to do anything with the images that are already on my site- unless I just don't know how to do it?  That's entirely possible!!

 

Anyway, thanks for the help everyone!

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April 20, 2014


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colormefrugal said:

Thank you so much to those who've mentioned GT Metrix.  Running that scan on my site was a huge eye-opener!  Images are a problem for me, but I've already removed the biggest offenders and I've got a little more work to do with the rest.  I'm still struggling to compress my own images (I took some of them through Photoshop and did the Save For Web as somebody suggested and it actually made them bigger!!), but I'm thinking I may just have to stop using my own images until I figure it out.  SmushIt does not seem to do anything with the images that are already on my site- unless I just don't know how to do it?  That's entirely possible!!

 

Anyway, thanks for the help everyone!

I use ImageOptim on a mac to compress the images. It tries multiple compression techniques and uses the best one for size.

If you are able to use an FTP software, you can download all your images from the upload folder, process them and upload them again.

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