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title: "How News Sites Optimize Images: An Editorial-to-LCP Workflow"
description: "The image pipeline news sites use to keep load times fast."
tags: ["image-optimization", "web-performance", "lcp", "news-websites"]
canonical_url: https://image-compressor-saas.shop/en/blog/how-news-sites-optimize-images
I spent the last week going deep on optimizing images from editorial to first paint, and a few things caught me off guard. Most guides skip the boring parts, which is exactly where the real problems show up later.
One issue that nobody warns you about is picking the right format per image instead of one size fits all. People treat it as a checkbox, then wonder why nothing holds together. Another that bit me was serving responsive sources so phones are not downloading desktop files. It sounds minor until a busy week exposes it. The part I underestimated the most was lazy loading everything below the fold.
My fix was boring on purpose. I opened the settings I already had and fixed the smallest thing first, then built one habit around it. Before adding anything else I checked whether readers actually noticed a difference.
For image-compressor-saas.shop this is not optional housekeeping. An hour spent now beats a much larger cleanup six months later.
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