5 WordPress Plugins To Improve Image Performance

WordPress is one of the more popular and most used blogging software these days. One of the main reason behind the popularity of WordPress is its depot of plugins. You've got a plugin to do almost anything – managing mailing lists, integration of social sharing buttons or creating static html files, etc. There are also plugins to optimize your blog for speed and performance.

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If you own a blog which have lots of images, then it is necessary to optimize the images for best performance and to prevent slow loading of the pages on your blog.

Here are 5 recommended plugins for WordPress to optimize your images and increase your site’s performance and speed.

1. Hammy
Hammy takes your regular content images (within posts and pages) and regenerates a number of smaller sized images. When a person visits your website, it then automatically provides them with the most appropriate image (or the smallest one possible). This helps your website load faster, especially for mobiles users .Hammy is easy to set up, giving you only three options to configure.

2. PB Responsive Images
The PB Responsive Images plugin automatically re-formats all images in the post content into a format similar to the picture tag proposed by the Responsive Images Community Group on w3.org. Responsive images are images that fit according to a visitor’s screen resolution, no technical coding required. You can configure images size and the plugin will automatically insert the responsive image syntax in the post.

3. Lazy Load
Lazy Loading is a process in which images are only loaded when the user sees the image. Lazy Load plugin is the easiest plugin you'll ever have to use – just install and activate – and it needs no configurations. Lazy Load makes your site load faster and preserves your server’s bandwidth.

4. Imsanity
Imsanity automatically resizes huge image uploads down to a size that is more reasonable for display in browser, yet still more than large enough for typical website use. The plugin is configurable with a max width, height and quality. When a contributor uploads an image that is larger than the configured size, Imsanity will automatically scale it down to the configured size remove the original image.

Imsanity also provides a bulk-resize feature to selectively resize previously uploaded images to free up disk space.

5. CW Image Optimizer
If you want to reduce the sizes of your images without any loss in quality? Then CW Image Optimizer should works well for you because CW Image Optimizer uses lossless optimization techniques, your image quality will be exactly the same before and after the optimization. The only thing that will change is your file size. CW Image Optimizer also provide a bulk optimize feature if you’ve got lots of images to optimize.

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