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Image optimization is an art and science. That can expressively reduce the size of an image. Finding the optimal setting of your image requires carefully analysis of quality and pixel dimensions of images.

Yes.You are right image optimization is important for SMM & SEO both. You should use .jpg file to optimize your image fast. You also should use your keywords for promotion.

Image optimization is a process of customizing an image by adding alt text, captions etc. Image compression is also a type of image optimization.

Image optimization is important in SEO point of view as well as to save space.
Below points should consider for image optimization.

Descriptive image name
Alt tag optimization
Image dimension and proper angles
Reduce the image size
Xml image sitemap

Image optimisation is basically secret writing your pictures so they create within the greatest potential quantity of traffic. Search engines supply separate image searches, that could be a good way to drive folks to your web site. however the Google and Bing bots may crawl the tags on your pictures for normal searches, so it pays to use legion photos with descriptive text in each post.

Image optimization is both an art and science: an art because there is no one definitive answer for how best to compress an individual image, and a science because there are many well developed techniques and algorithms that can significantly reduce the size of an image.

The Alt tag is probably the most important image optimization factor. Alt stands for an alternate. The text in the alt tag is displayed in place of the image if the image can not be shown or is taking too long to load. Most of the major search engines are text-based, i.e they can not read images and videos.

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It is a process of customizing an image by adding alt text, captions etc.

Images have a positive impact on user experience. Pictures may help your users better understand your content as well as they can verify your arguments. The unbroken wall of text is the last thing anybody wants to see while opening any webpage. Any content where no images are used seems endless and difficult for perceiving.
There're two required tags to use:

<image:image> Encloses all information about a single image. Each <url> tag can contain up to 1,000 <image:image> tags.

and <image:loc> The URL of the image.

And several optional ones:

<image:caption> The caption of the image.

<image:geo_location> The geographic location of the image.,

<image:title> The title of the image.

<image:license> A URL to the license of the image.

Image optimization involves delivering images with the smallest possible file size while maintaining visual quality. Optimizing images means saving bytes and improving performance for your website: the fewer bytes per image, the faster the browser can download and render the content on your users’ screens.

Images often account for most of the downloaded bytes on a web page and also often occupy a significant amount of visual space. As a result, optimizing images can often yield some of the largest byte savings and performance improvements for your website

Image optimisation is basically secret writing your pictures so they create within the greatest potential quantity of traffic

Image optimization is about reducing the file size of your images as much as possible without sacrificing quality so that your page load times remain low. It's also about image SEO. That is, getting your product images and decorative images to rank on Google and other image search engines.

There are many reasons to optimize images, Google can't read images so you have to add title and alt tag by which google can read and identify your images. also images takes time to load so you have to use minimum size images in website etc...

Google can't read your images directly so you have to optimize your images for google and other purpose also.