Is your  website running slow? Reducing the size of the images will speed it up and you will get higher ranking in Google and other search engines.

In this video, I show you how to speedup your WordPress website by compressing jpeg images in Linux CentOS using jpegoptim.

Commands:

yum install epel-release

yum install jpegoptim

• To optimize all JPEG pictures recursively (In sub-folders):

find -type f -name “*.jpg” -exec jpegoptim -p {} \; To compress all JPEG pictures in one folder: jpegoptim -p *.jpg

• To schedule the command in a cron job, put the path you want right after find:

find /home -type f -name “*.jpg” -exec jpegoptim -p {} \;

Note:  Use the above instructions at your own risk and always backup your images before performing any of these commands in case something goes wrong.