In Episode 2 of Discussing Stupid Season 2, host Virgil Carroll, along with Chad and Cole from High Monkey, dives into the topic of page performance and SEO, specifically focusing on how oversized images can slow down your website.
They discuss common mistakes people make with large images—like shrinking images in HTML without optimizing file size—and how these errors can negatively impact both the user experience and SEO rankings. The team shares insights into how to avoid these pitfalls and explores how tools like RIOT (Radical Image Optimization Tool) can help reduce file sizes without sacrificing image quality.
You'll also hear about the often overlooked balance between mobile and desktop optimization. The team highlights why simply resizing images for mobile isn’t enough and explains how poor image handling can lead to sluggish performance on mobile devices, frustrating users and hurting your site's overall effectiveness.
By the end of this episode, you'll walk away with actionable tips on optimizing images for both performance and SEO, ultimately improving your site’s speed and user experience.
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Tools mentioned:
Riot (Radical Image Optimization Tool): https://riot-optimizer.com/
Riot demo clip from this episode: https://www.discussingstupid.com/p/episode-2-image-optimization-demo
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10/29/24 • 16 min
Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX - Big images, slow loading
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>> Virgil CarrollSome kind of system that gives you those video recordings, you have to notice that people don't sit there and go to your header image, and they look around and they're like, oh, look at that, and look at what they did over here in the cool graphic The only person that did that was the person that actually created the graphic in the fir
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