Optimizing Images For Web Performance: All You Need To Know

October 31, 2025

Side-by-side view of the Cawston Press website displayed on a desktop monitor and a smartphone, featuring a rhubarb drink can with the tagline “Life’s Best Pressed” and fruit imagery in the background, emphasizing responsive design across devices.

There are a few strategies you can follow to speed up loading your images:

  • Reducing file size so images load more quickly
  • Prioritizing important images to use network resources efficiently
  • Avoiding layout shift when images render
  • Setting up caching properly
  • Not embedding large images in HTML or CSS
  • Using optimization features inside your CMS or plugins

Let’s look at each of these in detail.

Source: Optimizing Images For Web Performance: All You Need To Know | DebugBear

You probably know some if not all of this, but it’s always great to have collected together current best practise when it comes to various techniques.

And this is what we need to know right now about optimising image performance for the web.