Image optimization continues to be an important factor in website performance. This article breaks down 2025 image optimization best practices in detail, including choosing the right image format, resizing, compressing images, enabling lazy loading, optimizing metadata, and more, to help improve website speed and SEO rankings.

Use the Image Optimizer plugin to automatically optimize all images on your WordPress site, reduce image file sizes, and improve site loading speed. It supports automatic compression, batch optimization and format conversion to help your website improve performance, user experience and SEO ranking.