LLM Image Optimizer

I just published a new blog post explaining how LLM Image Optimizer upgrades Yoast’s SEO superpowers—this time, for your images.

The Story

I’ve been relying on Yoast for years—it nails content SEO, but always felt like one half of the puzzle. It flags missing alt text or image issues, but you still have to manually optimize, batch compress, or write metadata. That’s a lot of unpaid work.

So I built LLM Image Optimizer. It finally gives Yoast the missing muscle:

• Batch optimises hundreds of images—compress, resize, convert, you name it

• AI‑generated alt texts, captions, titles, descriptions based on real image analysis

• Strips bloated EXIF data to speed up pages and improve privacy

• Integrates back into WordPress so optimised images slide right back into your Media Library LLM Image Optimizer

What Changed

Now my site loads faster, delivers richer metadata, and ranks better — image SEO on steroids. Yoast handles most of the writing; LLM Image Optimizer handles the visuals and provides the proper image metadata.

Why It Matters

• Sites with fast, metadata‑rich images rank higher and perform better

• AI-generated metadata means no more “IMG_1234.jpg” alt disasters

• It saves hours of manual optimisation work

Check out the full breakdown here: “Supercharge Yoast…” blog post

Ever uploaded a photo and thought: “Cool, just sharing a nice picture”?
Well… your image probably also whispered:

• “This was taken on Dave’s iPhone 12, f/1.8, ISO 320.”

• “BTW, here are the GPS coordinates of Dave’s living room.”

• “Timestamp: Saturday night, 2am, don’t ask.”

Yeah, images are snitches. And nobody likes a snitch.

That’s why I built a one-click “Strip Metadata” button in LLM Image Optimizer. Hit it once and—POOF—your files stop oversharing.

✅ No more GPS leaks
✅ No extra 20KB bloat slowing your site
✅ No extra AI tokens wasted on junk data
✅ Just clean, fast, good-looking pixels

The best part: your photo looks exactly the same, minus the embarrassing backstory—EXIF gone, pixels untouched..

I like to think of it as digital deodorant. Doesn’t change who you are, just makes you more pleasant to be around.

👉 Do you strip EXIF metadata from your images already, or would you only do it if it was this easy?

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I’m building LLM Image Optimizer in public — would love your feedback. Give it a spin here: LLM Image Optimizer
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We’ve just shipped a big feature in LLM Image Optimizer: AI-generated compression presets — powered entirely by local models.

That means:

• ✅ Zero ongoing costs (no subscription required)

• ✅ Complete privacy (no uploads to third-party servers)

• ✅ Offline capability (works anywhere, even in the field)

• ✅ Unlimited usage (no API quotas or rate limits)

Compared to cloud services like Optidash, our approach gives you full control with no strings attached.

Would love feedback from fellow builders: do you prefer the predictability of local software or the convenience of cloud APIs?

I’ve been working on a project called LLM Image Optimizer, and this week I launched something that feels like a big step forward → the WordPress plugin.

Why WordPress? Because 43% of the web runs on it, and most of the creatives I spoke with (photographers, portfolio designers, small agencies) were either:
– stuck with slow sites because of heavy images
– or overpaying for SaaS subscriptions just to make their portfolios load faster.

This new plugin lets you:
– Optimise & watermark images directly on desktop.
– Pull your media library for selecting images to optimize.
– Push them straight into WordPress in one flow.
– Updates your Wordpress instantly.
– Batch create SEO meda data for your images alt, title and captions etc.
– Make portfolios load 2–3x faster and boost Core Web Vitals.

The vision is to keep LLM Image Optimizer simple but powerful → compression, editing, watermarking, and AI optimisation in one desktop app, without recurring fees.

Would love to hear from others who’ve built WP integrations → did it help with adoption?

The LLM Image Optimizer app started out as a tool designed to cut AI token costs when using images as context, reducing file size, cropping and compressing really helps to save you money over the long term, something I didn't grasp at first.

Apps like Cursor AI allow users to add images as context, I find this tool really useful for getting the LLM to understand my needs as sometimes just text gets long winded and the LLM gets confused!

But my real problem was the workflow, I would screen grab an image, take it in to photoshop or another image editing app, crop it, resize it to a size that was small and still readable, then save that image to my desktop and then drag that in to the Cursor context, sometimes I would just screen shot the image and bypass the whole process because I couldn't be bothered with the workflow! Lazy I know until I realised that was actually costing me money!

Also as a wedding photographer I had another need for such an app, one that gave me control of my images for online portfolios, I need images to be small enough so that they load fast, save on bandwidth and look great on screen too, yes I could use a CDN for some of this but everything costs too much money.

So I started fleshing out the idea to see what was possible, within a few hours I had a good test app that kind of did the trick but it needed more tools like crop, resize, annotations, watermarks and QR codes, image editing, batch editing and even screen capture all in one powerful platform.

I love using Tiny PNG for a while because of the batch editing but it lacks settings, and the Squoosh tool is also great but lacks batch editing, and none of these tools have screen capture built in either, so LLM Image Optimizer provides users with the best of everything in one package!

My LLM workflow now is "Command+S+Shit" from the app, it grabs the image or I can select an area, and then I just click "Start Processing" Boom! in no time at all this has made me even more productive, the great thing is I can click a button and place the image as context in no time, either as the actual optimized image or as base64, its super powerful and saves me time, and expensive LLM token costs.

Whats next for the app?
Well its an ongoing app that has a ton of features planned, drawing and painting, colour picker to build colour pallets from images, more filters and effects, and I am also building out the API for public use.

if you like the sound of LLM Image Optimizer then why not check out the app and give me your feedback at https://image-optimizer.app