How to Appease the Google PageSpeed Gods with regards to image optimization?

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I have a site with a pretty large media library. The images are mostly in JPG format. When I ran the site through Google's PageSpeed, it heavily penalized the score because the images were not optimized. I've tried a few plugins like Smush, but the PageSpeed still says the images need to be optimized. Which plugin or solution can optimize those images enough improve the score?

Originally asked by brooklynsweb on Stack Exchange (wordpress) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

After trying a few image optimization plugins resmush.it did the trick. If you reduce the JPG quality to 70% Google should stop complaining and images still look good. The plugin is even free. Of course your images also have to be scaled properly.

Full answer by Hannes: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/255101 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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