Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Amazon Drive… There is no shortage of online storage services, otherwise known as Cloud Drive or Cloud Storage. And almost all of them offer a free plan for those people that cannot or don’t want to pay for online storage. Here’s a small list of the most popular storage providers and their free plans:
You’ve been a diligent admin of your WordPress website, minified and compacted the JavaScript and CSS, and optimized all your images in order to make them as light as possible. You also took proper care to have properly sized images or thumbnails loaded everywhere.
If you have a WordPress site, using plugins such as Autoptimize or ShortPixel Image Optimizer saved you a lot of hassle in doing that. That’s great, but what’s next?
Meet WebP images – a next-gen image format created by Google, that provides superior lossy and lossless compression compared to JPG, PNG, and GIF formats.
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AVIF images are the next big step in image compression, and we have already been talking about it. AVIF promises images 50% smaller than JPG, and still keeping the same image quality. In comparison, WebP makes the image about 30% smaller, so it’s easy to see why you will want AVIF.
Starting with version 4.22, ShortPixel Image Optimizer (SPIO) is able to generate AVIF images! No need to use any hacks or manually upload them to your site. You just need the good old ShortPixel Image Optimizer.
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We previously talked about what Preconnect is and why you should implement it on your website. In this occasion we will talk about DNS Prefetch, a similar technique.
You probably know that domains exist just so we don’t have to remember the IPs of the servers of every website. Resolving a domain to an IP address is a process that takes some time, usually around 20-120ms, and that is done for every external domain that your website includes. Wouldn’t it be nice if these connections were made in the background while your page is loading, so when the actual resources need to be downloaded it all would take less time? That’s what DNS Prefetch does.
Continue reading What is DNS Prefetch and why you should implement it on your websiteWe have already written about how important are WebP images, and how the new AVIF format file is going to be better than WebP. But the most important question remains: how do I add AVIF images to my site? How do I add WebP images to my site?
The answer is ShortPixel.
If you have a WordPress site, and you probably do as more than 40% of all websites use WordPress, you have multiple ways to serve WebP or AVIF files.
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