Images & Photos · · 5 min read
How to Reduce Image Size Without Losing Quality
Make photos and graphics smaller without visible quality loss: resize to the display size, pick the right format, set a sensible quality and strip metadata.
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Smaller images, faster pages
Images are usually the heaviest part of a web page, an email attachment or a document upload. Two settings decide most of the file size: the pixel dimensions and the compression format. Shrinking a phone photo to the size it will actually be displayed at, and saving it in a suitable format, often makes it many times smaller with no visible change.
What this topic covers
- How to reduce image size without losing visible quality, step by step.
- When to use JPG, PNG or WebP, with simple rules of thumb.
- Image sizes for websites and social media, and why alt text matters for accessibility and search.
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