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How to Compress Image(s) Using IrfanView?

As I told earlier in my previous articles, image size is a crucial factor in defining search ranking of a blog. If you use heavy images in your blog posts, your page load speed gets hampered down. And our grandfather Google doesn’t love that at all. Previously I discussed and reviewed several ways to compress an image to reduce its size without losing its quality. One of the best tools amongst them was IrfanView. This is currently the most popular offline compressing tool available. In this article we’re going to see how an image size is reduced using IrfanView. First of all, download the IrfanView software from this link . Along with the software, download all its plugins. The tool is of 1.8 Mb and the all-in-one plugin file is of about 10 Mb. Install the software followed by its plugins. Now let's directly get to the tutorial. You can compress single image as well as multiple at once.First things first. How to compress a single image? 1. After installing

How to Reduce Image Size without Losing its Quality!

Everyday billions of people surf the net. There are billions of websites on the net. For a particular topic there are thousands of webpages to help the internet users. For bloggers it’s nothing but a race to reach the top of the rankings. The only thing that can help you survive the race is SEO or Search Engine Optimization . Without proper optimization, your blog is nothing but a bundle of wastages. Sorry to say, but that’s the harsh truth. There are several factors that defines the SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Amongst them one of the most important measure is image optimization. Previously I explained how you can optimize an image for better SEO of your blog. Google’s recent Panda algorithm update has emphasized on image sizes to rank pages. So besides those classic optimizations, you’ve to now care about the image size as well. Never forget that you’re in competition with thousands of other websites providing the same sort of stuff to the internet users. So if a v