So you might be wondering, why should I even optimize my images for the website when I upload them? I hope the website does it for me. Well, actually, it doesn't. It does some basic compression, depending of which CMS Are you using. But it's important for you to optimize your images in order to create the best possible user experience for your visitors. So if you don't optimize your images, your website load times would be a lot slower, which in terms hurt you a Google search, Yahoo search being searched and so on, because it increases your bounce rate, which is our rate at which your visitors leave your website.
So for example, if a website takes 0.5 seconds to load the image, visitors will be happier because they can easily scroll down to see the next section, next image and so on. But if the same image takes three seconds, To load, many people just don't have the time to wait for that image to load, they will just leave, which is called a bounce rate and which in turn, will hurt you on search engines. The other reason is people with slower internet speeds. So depending of where your audience is from, if it's from, let's say, developed countries with faster internet, it's really not the issue. But if your audience is global, keep in mind people in the US don't have the same speeds as people in India, people in South Korea, and so on. The next reason is your hosting space.
So you're paying for your hosting, which is just a regular hard drive in some companies warehouse. Hard Drives as they go, they have the limits of space, and the companies just can't work. Can't wait to upsell you some more space. Why should you pay extra money every year to the companies, when you can easily optimize your images and save the hosting space and in terms of save the fees you will pay for the hosting otherwise. And one final reason is uploading times. So if you are uploading an image, which is just one megabyte, and on the other hand, you're uploading an image, which is let's say 20 megabytes, it will upload faster, which will save you time, time, which you can then invest in some other things that you need to do for your blog or website.
Like write articles, optimize it, and so on.