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optimizer

optimizer

1 4.5
A person or tool that makes a process work faster and use less energy
  • noun
  • /ˈɑːptɪmaɪzər/
translation icon : optimizador
  • The team hired an optimizer to enhance their marketing strategies and increase sales.
  • search engine optimizer
  • engine optimizer

So the whole compulsion of your genes is to be a grandparent optimizer.

Examples

  • In most cases, an SEO optimizer will make sure that other important factors are considered.

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  • I was a Search Engine Optimizer and worked for several large companies and agencies, leading teams and getting results.

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  • I think that JPEG optimizers are what you want to look for.

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  • Jeff Stevens (@kuratowa to most of us) serves as web content optimizer for the Academic Health Center at the University of Florida.

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  • But over time, crafty webmasters and website optimizers have figured out the fundamentals of PageRank.

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  • As a Google Website Optimizer Approved Consultant company, WiderFunnel Marketing is on the leading edge of developing the planning, processes, and technical advancements in this new area of expertise called Conversion Rate Optimization.

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  • For content marketers, link builders, search engine optimizers (SEO), and other industry players, this month has been full of newly released goodies from the larger internet companies.

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  • As a skilled web developer, she often collaborates with an optimizer to improve site performance.

  • Using the latest tools, the optimizer streamlined the production process, resulting in higher efficiency.

Synonyms

efficiency expert
vsoptimizer
  • Specialized
3 4.3

A person who looks at how a business works and finds ways to save time and reduce waste

aims at overall efficiency not only analysis and advice
maximizer
vsoptimizer
1 7.2

A person who always tries to get the best result

focuses on making things work efficiently or effectively rather than only best result
improver
vsoptimizer
1 3.7

A person or thing that helps make something better

aims specifically at efficiency and effectiveness rather than general improvement
rationalizer
vsoptimizer
  • Jargon
7.5

Something that makes a system or process work with less waste

aims more broadly at making things work efficiently or effectively
efficiency engineer
vsoptimizer
  • Specialized
4.6

A person who helps a company use machines and people better to save time and money

covers efficiency too but applies to any tool, person, or method

How Specialized

optimizer
1 4.5
specializer
  • Specialized
9.0
compiler
  • Specialized
14 5.5
utility
  • Specialized
49 4.4

Surface Forms

optimizer singular
optimizers plural

Morphology

optimizer = optimize (transparent) = optimize + er

Formed by adding the agentive suffix '-er' to 'optimize', yielding 'one who optimizes' or 'a tool that optimizes'.

Etymology

Optimizer comes from the Latin root optimus, meaning 'best', and connects to familiar words like optimal and optimum. That's why an optimizer is a person or tool that makes things work in the most effective or 'best' way.