Comments on: The #1 Thing You Can Do to Improve Mobile UX: Image Optimization

By: Matthew Young

Matthew Young — Thu, 08 May 2014 15:48:40 +0000

miketat, I totally agree. It goes without saying that if you aren’t prepared, get prepared, and fast! Mobile search volumes are slated to overtake desktop in about a year (according to the figures I’ve seen) so it’s a mobile-first world now. Kind of strange to think about considering it was the opposite just a few short years ago. Anyway, in my opinion it’s best to hop on the good foot and do the mobile thing – the viability of our businesses depend on it.

By: miketat

miketat — Mon, 05 May 2014 10:26:04 +0000

Informative post Matt. Responsive sites are very necessary since most of the traffic for any business come from mobile devices. Since it is also saying that mobile searches going to increase more than desktop searches, so it is very important to design your site in this manner that it cover all aspects of SEO. Everyone should keep this thing in mind for growth of business.

By: Matthew Young

Matthew Young — Fri, 02 May 2014 22:15:33 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Simon. I think you should compress as many images as possible. Given the number of images the total load time still may be long, but compression could be the difference between a site which loads in 6 seconds as opposed to 9. It’s not where you want to be, ideally, but it’s lot faster than before.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 01 May 2014 08:47:59 +0000

Would compressing all images still work if the number of images appearing on a page were many? Sometimes there are up to 40 images per page and some images take longer to load than others. All images have to be of a certain dimension so that’s not a factor, but I’m curious…

By: Matthew Young

Matthew Young — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:35:03 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Ben. You’re absolutely right. What SEOs do is mostly common sense. Given the gravity of mobile and how easy it is to offer the kinds of experiences user expect, it’s surprising how often even the simplest things are overlooked, even when other SEO 101 items have been addressed. I agree. Not rocket science.

By: Ben Wynkoop

Ben Wynkoop — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:02:30 +0000

Great article Matt. Oddly enough image compression is not rocket science in comparison to other aspects SEOs work with, but for some reason often overlooked. Every single site I have audited in the past week has great title tags, textual content, etc… but no compressed images.