Re:Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%
by detritus on Monday July 16, 2018 @09:33AM
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This applies to any image will never be seen in its original state - eg. photos that are opacified or dulled down to act as background elements.
We had a site outsourced (because I found Shopify to be ..'tricky'.. to meaningfully work with on a PC) and the developer was darkening 'hero' images on the homepage shout in CSS, rather than specifying that we simply pre-process them in something like Photoshop before uploading.
When I realised (I wasn't particularly hands on by this point) I was livid, so changed the code and we knocked a few hundred Kb off the front page. Our site is necessarily image heavy, so any gains anywhere are useful.
When I first started I had a ceiling limit of about a 120Kb for the entire page - images and all - so today's internet is a weird and foreign land to me.
We had a site outsourced (because I found Shopify to be ..'tricky'.. to meaningfully work with on a PC) and the developer was darkening 'hero' images on the homepage shout in CSS, rather than specifying that we simply pre-process them in something like Photoshop before uploading.
When I realised (I wasn't particularly hands on by this point) I was livid, so changed the code and we knocked a few hundred Kb off the front page. Our site is necessarily image heavy, so any gains anywhere are useful.
When I first started I had a ceiling limit of about a 120Kb for the entire page - images and all - so today's internet is a weird and foreign land to me.