Do you have doubts about the potential weight savings you make by compressing your website images? So test if you need to compress your images with a simple and free online tool. Let’s find out right away!
Tiny PNG web image compression analysis tool
Many of you already know TinyPNG (also called Tinify) for its main functionality of compressing JPG, PNG, and WebP images. This mostly free tool is great because it lets you compress images on the fly and then put them online on a website or blog.
In this case, if you take the time to browse the other tabs of the Tinify site, you can discover to the right of the main menu, the “ Analyzer ” tab. And when we go to this tab, here is what we get:
Just paste the web address of your website or any address of any page of your website. Then click on the Analyze Page button . In just a few seconds, you will have the result whether or not you need to compress certain images of the web page concerned 🙂 Nice, right? 🙂
Let’s test together with Yes We Blog! Here is the result for the home page:
Well, the page is not bad in terms of image compression 🙂 And so much the better obviously! Fortunately,
If you want to test the tool: https://tinypng.com/analyzer
Please note that this testing tool is free. The link is not affiliated and the post you are reading is not sponsored 😉 This very very simplified free web tool makes it possible to know whether images really need to be very reduced in weight or not on a web page .
Why use the TinyPNG Analyzer?
I sometimes hear from my clients that the results of tests done with other tools like PageSpeed Insights are complicated to interpret and sometimes to understand. Which I confirm for some of the results which are not at all popularized 🙁
This is why the tool for analyzing potential savings on the weight of images on certain web pages is great. It’s not going to send you a very long list of results. You will have a single percentage figure which will tell you the potential you can gain if you further compress your web page images 🙂
Another advantage, if the tool tells you that there is a lot of image compression to be done, you can stay on the same site and switch to the first “ WEB” tab to start image compression !
Be careful, however, when you paste a website url web address into analysis, the result only concerns this same address. Not on your entire website 🙂
Why compress web images?
Because otherwise, you increase the weight of your web page. Imagine that you put 5 photos from your last vacation on your page and that each raw photo is 6 MB.
6 x 5 = 30 MB -> it’s heavy for an email, so imagine for a simple web page 😉
The idea is to have lighter images. This can go through:
- Reduction of dimensions
- Changing format (going from JPG to WEBP for example)
In short, compress your images, your website will benefit and so will you!
In short, avoid:
- Photos with dimensions of 4000×5000 and opt for a maximum width of 1200px, especially for the main image
- Photos that remain in JPG even though they can be converted to Webp via TinyPNG or other online tool
- To put dozens and dozens of photos and images on a single page 😉
With this, you will reduce the weight of your pages and therefore: the speed of their display!
