A blog that takes too long to load will make the visitor tired of waiting and leave the site permanently. This, as we well know, depends in large part on the amount of images we have, in general it is due to their size, among other factors of course. If we tend to illustrate our content with many images, it is good to think about optimizing them by reducing their size, in this way we will easily be lightening the loading time of our beloved blog.
And for this task, a good tool you can use is RIOT , a free application that will effectively help you reduce images without losing quality.
Radical Image Optimization Tool ( RIOT ) is a free image optimization program that includes a variety of configuration options and settings to optimize any type of image. It supports over 20 popular formats, such as JPEG , GIF, PNG, BMP, and PSD. Although it's only available in English, its intuitive design makes it easy to use and offers a real-time preview of the results. However, advanced users will find what they're looking for here, as it's powerful, fast, and offers all the necessary options, such as metadata removal, compression percentage settings, color palette adjustment, batch operations, and more.
RIOT is also used as a plugin in other well-known applications like G IMP, XnView , and IrfanView . It's completely free, compatible with Windows 7/Vista/XP, lightweight, and comes with its own installer file and a portable version. Keep in mind that you can also use it to reduce image size for other projects, not just websites.
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