Until today I have usually added images to blog posts by linking them from other pages, found through Google Image Search. But from now on I will change that habit. Not that I won’t use Google Image Search any longer, but I won’t add images to posts that are hosted on other sites. Instead I will search for the image, download it, resize it in Gimp, save it in a compressed format, and finally upload and add it to the relevant post with WordPress.

This change will greatly decrease the loading time for my blog and posts. Because usually are the images unnecessary large and have to be resized on the user’s computer, which means that the user have to download the full image, to later make it smaller. This is pretty pointless.
The images are also often saved in formats that aren’t very Internet friendly, which takes up much space and will just increase the loading time for the user. Instead I will save all images as compressed jpegs.
The last advantage with hosting the images on my own web host, is that the transfer time will decrease since the user won’t have to access foreign countries around the whole globe to download images. And it also looks pretty bad when the site won’t stop loading, because some Russian server has a slow upload speed.