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Using WP Smush to optimize images

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Using WP Smush to optimize images

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- [Instructor] I've run a crawl for saltandsimple.com using Screaming Frog and I've selected the images tab and we can see here all of the image sizes that are showing up within this crawl. Now, I want to see what type of improvement we can get by using a plugin to handle this optimization for us. I've toggled back over to our WordPress dashboard and I'm going to select plugins in the bottom left-hand corner, and then add new. One of the most popular tools to compress images within WordPress is Smush. So I'll do a search for Smush, and here we can see Smush Image Optimization and as you can see, there's over a million active installations, this is an incredibly popular tool, it's been well tested and it beats the competition in almost every comparison. I'll choose install now in the upper right-hand corner, and then we'll activate. I can scroll down my plugin list and I'll select settings below Smush. So already, it's…

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