Tools for reducing file sizes of your videos, images, mp3s and PDFs

Sharing files over the internet is a task filled with clutter. You may have a very good processor and a high speed internet, but you may have gone through this problem at least once while sharing large files over the internet. So the only solution for these problems is reducing the file sizes i.e., compressing the files. This could be helpful to send a bunch of important files to someone without exceeding the size limit of the attachment.

The following the free online tools that can be used to reduce the file sizes.

Compressify:

The smaller the size of the file, the faster it will load. Now you don’t have to wait a long while to upload your video into your social networking platforms or any websites. This is the best solution for compressing your video files about 60% without any change in the resolution of the video. It compresses any video up to 8MB limit and converts it to WebM format that is the format for the videos in the browser.

CompressNow:

It feels good when you click photos with a high resolution camera because of the quality, but you get to realize the problem of sharing it with others only when you got to see the file size while sharing it online. Such a problem can be resolved now with the help of CompressNow which helps you to shrink JPEG, PNG and GIF files. It is also one among the very few tools that support batch compression. Upload the files, set the percentage that you wish to shrink the file and then click on Compress Now and get ready to download the files.

SmallPDF:

All the security features that a PDF file has will actually make the file size bigger. So, sharing becomes little bit hassle. SmallPDF is a perfect tool that you can use it for compressing your PDF files and it shrinks your files with 144 dots per inch which is perfect for reading.

MP3Smaller:

Mp3 is a very popular format for music files these days. If you want to shrink your audio files, then MP3Smaller helps you in compressing audio files up to 50 Mb to various formats that you can choose from. As this may affect your audio quality, it is suggested to select Common File Size (Bitrate 128Kbps). It does not allow compressing of batch files.

If you find none of the above useful and if you want to send audio files, documents, videos all in a single attachment, then you can zip them. Here is a tool to zip

Ezyzip:

If you don’t want the files to be disturbed in any manner and want to keep them intact while sending them to the others over the internet, then you must try zipping them which will help you to reduce the file size. And the easiest web tool for archiving is Ezyzip. You can just upload your files and select the format to zip files and you can even share the link to your friends so that they can extract your archived file as it also has an unzipping tool.

Written By: Satyapriya Buddhavarapu