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This! Especially with the web being increasingly consumed on low-powered mobile devices. It's also not just about being faster than the network because the bro
by davej 11y ago
This! Especially with the web being increasingly consumed on low-powered mobile devices.
It's also not just about being faster than the network because the browser is probably simultaneously doing page layout, javascript parsing, image decompression and a ton of other things. Also more time spent decoding images is a drain on the battery.
Focusing solely on compression stats can be misleading, it's a balancing act. For example, I'm not sure being 0.7x smaller than PNG is much of a win if FLIF ends up being an order of magnitude slower. Perhaps it is still a win but it needs a bit more nuance in the analysis to reach that conclusion.