There is nothing more annoying than visiting a website to download an important document that contains a few pages and having to wait for it to load. Or sometimes you have a PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel file, or even a relatively large image and you can’t share it because of its size, so you have to wait for it to be uploaded. Luckily, there are many specialized tools to reduce the size of these types of files by compressing their content in different ways. Today, I want to highlight one of those standout free online tools for performing such a task.
The website WeCompress is an online platform that offers you a service to compress and reduce the size of various files easily and for free. It does not display ads, add watermarks to files after compression, or require you to create an account. The site allows you to compress all types of documents such as PDF files, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and images in PNG or JPG formats. In fact, the program is very fast in performing this task and highly effective in compressing file sizes. It is worth mentioning that the site is built on the famous NXPowerLite program, which is also known for compressing file sizes. So, if you have a number of files and want to reduce their size quickly without software, I believe that the WeCompress website will be suitable for you.
Using the website is as easy as it gets. As we mentioned, it does not require you to create an account so you can use it as soon as you visit it. All you have to do is click the big Add file button to bring up the Browse window where you can select the files you want to compress and reduce in size. Alternatively, you can simply select all the files from your device, then drag and drop them into the browser window on the site for instant recognition and addition.
Once you select and add the files to the site, it will upload them immediately. The upload process depends on the speed of your internet connection, so if it is slow, you’ll need to be patient until the upload is complete. Then, the site will perform optimizations and other modifications on the selected files to compress their size. Keep in mind that the site handles files in a way that does not compromise their quality. Even after compression, they will remain suitable for printing or sharing via email, and you can interact with them very naturally.
After the upload and analysis process is complete, you will see the File ready screen where the file has now been compressed and reduced in size. It will display the original size of the file (“Was”) and the current size after compression done by the site (“now”). Simply click the Download button to choose where to save the file and click Save to download the file in its new size next to the original file. You can then either delete or keep the original file, so the compressed file is suitable for sharing. You can preview it to ensure that all the content is of the same quality without any noticeable loss in image quality inside the file.
In my experience with the website, it was able to compress a JPG image with an original size of 4.81 to just 572 kilobytes without me noticing any difference in quality. As a result, the time taken to upload it to the internet was less than uploading the image at its original size.
