Images inside blog posts [Need advice]

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For better post blog speed should I upload the images on my hosting? Or use external sources like pinterest, imgur and than embed images?
 
It's better to use less size images, posts looks good if you add the images, links won't help more viewers.
 
Upload in your own server and use CDN. So that the images will be loaded from the CDN servers. Use cache plugins as well for a better loading speed.
 
For better post blog speed should I upload the images on my hosting? Or use external sources like pinterest, imgur and than embed images?
Upload it to your server but serve them through a CDN.

Make sure to fully optimize them for performance tho.
  • Resize - Make sure to have mobile users in mind (500px in width will be more than enough)
  • Compress - I recommend the loosely method
  • WebP - Convert and/or serve images in WebP format
  • Responsiveness - Make sure to serve the best-optimized version of your image based on the device used to load the page (desktop, tablet, or mobile).
  • Dimensions - Make sure all images have their respective dimensions specified on the page HTML document. This will prevent CLS issues.
  • Lazyload - Exclude above-the-fold images but make sure to lazy load everything else.
  • CDN - Serve images (and any other static resource) through a CDN
Follow these steps, and you won´t have any issues with images negatively affecting performance.
 
Utilize image optimization best practices as part of regular blogging or use your Wordpress hosting support or a speed test tool to optimize images. There are the top benefits to optimizing your images that you should know:

- Speed up your website
- Improve your SEO rankings
- To increase your conversation rate for sales and leads
- Reduce hosting costs and CDN costs
- And increase your website backups ( this also reduces backup storage costs).
 
For better post blog speed should I upload the images on my hosting? Or use external sources like pinterest, imgur and than embed images?
Create subdomain cdn.yoursite.tld and just put your files there whule using cloudflare and some other stuff to enhance it or just use jetpack for cdn
 
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