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I mostly agree, with the caveat that a great deal of web traffic is now image sharing social sites and so any reduction in traffic size is still a good thing.

by ehnto 6y ago

I mostly agree, with the caveat that a great deal of web traffic is now image sharing social sites and so any reduction in traffic size is still a good thing. I also want to point out that people can tell the difference between when something should be good quality and when it doesn't matter. Like even on Instagram, people will forgive a pixelated meme but still be disappointed by a portrait with compression artifacts.

jaffathecake 6y ago
In my experience, folks are referring to blocky JPEG compression in those cases. Or, for digital art, specifically chroma subsampling. I can't decide if Instagram falls under the like-Flickr use-case or not. I think on mobile, AVIF-style compression would still be best, but it could be different on desktop.