SmushIt – Image Optimization Tool by Yahoo!
A lot of free tools are out in the market that lets you strip images, thus saving some amount of data without effecting the quality or looks of the image. The only problem with such kinds of tools is that they are command line based tools therefore, you have to know about them, before you can use it.
Recently, Yahoo announced a new web tool named Smushit, in order to help users optimize the size of images without effecting the visual quality of the image.
With the help of Smushit, you have the option to either upload the image, or provide the URL to that image, or you can use a FireFox extension.
The main advantage about SmushIt is that it could dramatically reduce your bandwidth as well as pages load time.
Below is a Summary of some of the key features of SmushIt:
- Upload and optimize images from your computer or via URL.
- Shrink image size without compromising quality.
- Export and optimize images from any web page with Firefox extension.
- Optimize as many images as you like.
- No sign-up needed.
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