Best Practices For Image Optimization And Page Speed Performance

In this video i'll be going over how to optimize your images for search engine optimization. Images aren't often seen as like the biggest ranking factor in google but it is important to ensure that you're optimizing them to be seo friendly.

The main elements that are important for image optimization include adding alt text including big captions for your image as well as optimizing your image title and the URL for the image. i'll run through how to do that if you have a wordpress website and go through some of the different things that you may want to consider when uploading images to your wordpress site.  

The two main things you can do one make sure your images conform to the size dimensions of your website. The other part is to make sure that you are compressing your images. This will ensure that your images are lighter and that your page will load faster as a result. You can also use several plugins like smush or imagify that will automatically compress images as they're uploaded to your website.