IMIOD

If your website or blog's loading times are above average, your first instinct might be to jump straight into a detailed examination of each page. Without denying that the analysis could help, sometimes you can remedy the issue by accounting by the basics first.

IMIOD is an application that enables you to resize and compress a wide variety of graphic images and hence, help you boost your website's performance.

The setup is quick, uneventful and does not require any special attention from your part. Upon launch, you come face to face with a simplistic and unpolished, yet intuitive and easy to navigate interface. While you can preview the images you want to compress from the left larger panel, you can preview the picture and select the desired processing parameters from the right area.

You should know that you can add photos via drag and drop or load directories by accessing the File menu. The utility enables you to view details such as the location and path, resolution, bits per pixel, bitmap size and DPI.

The highlight of the program stems from the fact that it allows you to change the size of the pictures with high accuracy. To put it simply, you can define the precise width, height and resolution for the images before you proceed to batch processing them. Moreover, you can optimize the files' pixel formats by selecting an appropriate value between 1 Bit Dither to 32 Bit.

It is worth mentioning that the utility allows you to change the photo formats, an action that you can easily complete by selecting one of the many numerous options from the Process section. Among the formats supported you can count EXR, JP2, GIF, TIFF, TARGA, PGM, PPM, HDR, J2K and PFM just to name a few.

In the eventuality that you made sure you have an appropriate format for each image and reduced quality as much possible, but still cannot see any improvement to your website's performance, then perhaps IMIOD might come in handy.