- Keep the pixels unless the image is far larger than where it will be shown.
- Use JPEG quality 75 to 85. Above that the bytes buy nothing you can see; below 60 the blocks appear.
- If you must resize, sharpen afterwards. A downscale without sharpening looks soft, which people misread as compression damage.
- Strip metadata. EXIF, embedded thumbnails and colour profiles from a camera can add 100 KB and change nothing visible.
The tool applies all four. Use the Compare button and the 1:1 zoom on any result to check for yourself.