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Re:Compressing Images Using Google’s Guetzli by dmitrygr on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:14PM (#14402461)
27MB of images on a webpage is inexcusable! You don't need better compression. You need to reconsider what you are doing with your life (and your poor users' data allowance). Visiting your site once would use up about 1% of AT&T 4G user's monthly data!

How do you justify this?

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Re:Compressing Images Using Google’s Guetzli by TeMPOraL on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @01:52PM (#14403427)
> How do you justify this?

Our analytics indicate people like "stuffed" sites more. The data clearly shows that the bounce rate is much higher for people with outdated hardware and software; conversely, conversion rate is much higher for people downloading our multi-megabyte scripts and styles. Clearly, this means we should not waste time optimizing the site for people with stale hardware/software, and focus on delivering more exciting experience for those whose machines can process it.

/s

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