Shrink Image Size Online With Yahoo Smushit

October 4, 2008 – 11:08 pm

Yahoo is well knowned for better website performance, persisting this tradition Yahoo has recently came up with a new service called Smushit.Smushit is a free online tool which will allow web developers and designers to shrink their images without spoiling the quality of image.

Smushit is a very handy tool which can do image optimization work effortlessly, as it is a online tool so it doesn’t require any software installation. Smushit reduce image sizes by tumbling the range of colors, striping out textual metadata and other useless visual data.

You can command Smushit to do this job in three ways:

1. Uploading images online at Smashit
2. Providing URL to the image
3. Firefox extension to optimize images found on any web page

I tried Smushit and was really impressed with the service. It is really a great tool for developers and will surely help them in optimizing their pages.

Try Smushit