Image Compressor – Compress Image Online (Free Tool)
Free online Image Compressor tool to compress images and reduce file size. Optimize photos for web while maintaining quality. Supports JPEG, PNG, and WebP. All processing happens locally.
What is Image Compressor?
Image Compressor shrinks PNG, JPG, and WebP file sizes by re-encoding at a target quality. Useful for speeding up page loads, fitting into upload limits, or just saving bandwidth. Compression runs in the browser using canvas re-encoding — your image stays local and you can compare before/after side-by-side before downloading.
Why use this tool?
- Works offline after the first page load
- Lightweight page weight that loads quickly even on slow connections
- Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile in any modern browser
- Output preserves color profile and metadata except when stripping is explicitly requested
- Supports PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, and SVG with consistent quality across formats
How to use
- Upload one or more images to Image Compressor
- Adjust the output dimensions, quality, or format
- Click the action button — processing happens client-side using Canvas
- Save each result individually or download all at once
Examples
Halve a JPEG's size
Set quality to 75 and a typical photo drops to 40-60% of its original size with negligible visible difference — ideal for web delivery.
Compress PNG for a logo
PNG compression is lossless, but switching to WebP at quality 90 can cut size by 30-50% with no visible loss for most logos.
Batch a folder of screenshots
Drop multiple files in, set a single target quality, and download all the compressed versions at once.
Common use cases
- Optimising blog images for Core Web Vitals (Lighthouse loves smaller bytes)
- Reducing email attachment sizes below mail-server caps
- Preparing product photos for an e-commerce platform that imposes upload limits
- Compressing screenshots before pasting into a chat / issue tracker
- Saving storage on a personal cloud drive
Troubleshooting
- Compressed image looks blocky / has artefacts.
- Quality is too low. Raise the slider until artefacts disappear — 75-85 is a safe range for photographic content.
- PNG size barely changed.
- PNG is lossless. Convert to JPEG (for photos) or WebP (for both) to see real savings — quality 80-90 keeps it visually identical.
- Output looks worse than the input even at quality 100.
- Re-encoding always introduces some loss. If the original is already optimal, accept it — or try a lossless format like PNG → WebP-lossless.
Frequently Asked Questions
Image compression reduces file size by removing redundant data and optimizing encoding. Lossy compression sacrifices some quality for smaller size, while lossless compression preserves all data.
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