Your Website Images Are Killing Your SEO — Here's How to Fix It (opens in new tab)

The Hidden Speed Killer on Every Website If your web pages take more than 2.5 seconds to load, Google's Core Web Vitals are already penalizing your rankings. And here's the uncomfortable truth: unoptimized images are almost always the single biggest culprit. A typical web page downloads 1.5–3 MB of data on desktop — and images account for 50–80% of those bytes. A single uncompressed hero image at 4000×3000px can weigh 5 MB. Multiply that by a gallery of 10 product photos and you've got 50 MB ...