With page speed a ranking SEO factor and consumers expecting exceedingly fast web experiences, it’s crucial to get aggressive and take control of your image sizes to deliver a faster loading website to your users. Image compression is either lossy or lossless: Lossy works by discarding information from the original file, and lossless retains all the original data (though, the file size tends to be bigger). There’s a variety of image compression algorithms that take different approaches to reducing file size, and the tools listed below utilize a number of those to minimize the size of your images. Whether it’s JPEG, PNG, GIF or SVG, we’ve got you covered with this selection of 18 free, premium, online and desktop-based image compressors. All of them……