Image Compressor
Photos straight from a phone or camera are usually three to ten times larger than a website needs. This shrinks them before you upload, so your pages load quickly on Kenyan mobile data. Everything happens inside your browser, so nothing is sent to us or anyone else.
Drop images here
or choose them from your device. JPEG, PNG and WebP. Nothing is uploaded.
Why this matters more in Kenya than most places
A lot of your customers are on mobile data, and a fair number are on a connection that is fine for WhatsApp but struggles with a 4MB photo. If your homepage carries six of them, that page can take ten seconds or more to appear. Most people will not wait. Compressing the same photos to a few hundred kilobytes each often takes a site from sluggish to instant without changing the design at all.
Which settings should I use?
- WebP at quality 80 is the right default for almost every website photo. It is usually half the size of a JPEG at the same visual quality and every current browser supports it.
- Choose JPEG only if something you are uploading to specifically rejects WebP. Some older systems still do.
- 1200px on the largest side suits most images on a page. Use 1600px for a full-width banner, 800px for cards and thumbnails.
- Going below quality 60 starts to show, especially on skin tones and flat backgrounds like a plain sky.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. The compression is done by your own browser using the canvas built into it. You can prove it: load this page, disconnect from the internet, and it will still work. That is not true of most free compressors, which send your files to a server you know nothing about. If you handle client photos, ID documents or anything sensitive, that difference matters.
A note on resizing
Shrinking the dimensions usually saves more than lowering the quality does. A 4000px wide photo displayed in a 600px wide column is carrying more than six times the pixels it can ever show. Resize first, then compress.
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