Optimizing images for website

So I have several images that have been edited / created via photoshop on my website http://www.info-junkie.com i saved this images as saved for html or something along those lines, which greatly reduced their size. However, I am still running into problems when loading my site. Upon checking site loading time tools, it is showing that most of my problems are coming from large image file size. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to optimize my images for my site?
Again that site is http://www.info-junkie.com

I cleared my browsers cache took a snapshot then loaded you page something like 17 files were downloaded the largest one 150KB your background. Nothing big???

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