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> 38.14 MB transferred Including multiple photographs loaded as PNGs....... Nice design but someone forgot to optimize it.
by worldofmatthew 4y ago
> 38.14 MB transferred Including multiple photographs loaded as PNGs....... Nice design but someone forgot to optimize it.
- nickpeterson 4y agoI have a sneaking suspicion HN putting this on the front page will teach someone this lesson.
- worldofmatthew 4y agoLooks like Google Cloud CDN. Cache egress $0.02-$0.20 per GiB Getting on the front page of Hacker News might hurt their "pocket's" a bit.
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agohttps://colossal.com/wp-content/themes/colossal/img/dodo/hero.jpg https://colossal.com/wp-content/themes/colossal/img/dodo/her... seems to be the main culprit: 10MB of JPEG at 2880x2400, absolutely unnecessary given that a simple re-export at 70% quality (imperceptible differences) takes it down to 385KB and a rescale to 1440x1200 takes it down even further to 72KB. Makes you wonder how many petabytes are pointlessly running between continents. Although in this case WordPress should have taken care by default to optimize the images.
- worldofmatthew 4y agoI managed 115KB with my normal AVIF settings at full size, maybe closer to 130KB if using artificial noise regeneration.
- asah 4y ago...or at least warn authors and provide a one-click button to optimize...
- account42 4y agoJPEG quality 70% absolutely wrecks the noise for me. This is quite perceptible at the size the image is used at. If the noise is really neccessary for the page is another question but surely there are better options than turning the JPEG quality down to 'ass'.
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agoI don't know what you mean. Tell me if the original is left or right: https://postimg.cc/3dxJTJQT https://postimg.cc/3dxJTJQT original: https://postimg.cc/GBX9Y8Cq https://postimg.cc/GBX9Y8Cq optimized: https://postimg.cc/23hrNbKM https://postimg.cc/23hrNbKM literally imperceptible
- hhh 4y agoright
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agoCorrect.
- marpstar 4y agoSo it's not "literally imperceptible". I'm not even running a high DPI monitor and I can tell.
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agoOpen the images in two tabs and switch between them, there are indeed literally imperceptible differences, as viewed normally, not zoomed x800.
- simmo9000 4y agoHope that they are better with their genomes and don't put excess "stuff" in... (Hollywood showed me that could be a bad thing. Frogs, Cuttlefish...)