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Happy users, faster growing userbase, more e-store revenue, higher click-through rates, lower latency, better quality-of-experience, or more 7-day-returning use
by JyrkiAlakuijala 5y ago
Happy users, faster growing userbase, more e-store revenue, higher click-through rates, lower latency, better quality-of-experience, or more 7-day-returning users can be more important financial incentives than bandwidth. Humans are more than thousands of times more valuable than a computer.
When image quality and observed latency are at a level where users don't care even subconsciously (say, images look like camera originals and load in 100 ms), then bandwidth cost optimization may become a good 2nd objective.
- fshr 5y agoThis is a strange argument. The larger companies have plenty of people to work on all the things you mentioned plus bandwidth optimizations. Also, they’re rarely the same people.
- jacobolus 5y agoThe claim (from one of the people working on JPEG XL at Google) is that better image compression is going to reduce latency (or allow higher-quality images) and thereby improve other metrics besides bandwidth costs, giving internet companies even more incentive to adopt better codecs.