> "Users feel something is off" Do they? Because an image is 1.5x and not 2x on their phone? Mate, that's nonsense. Just do a comparison yourself and you'll s

> "Users feel something is off" Do they? Because an image is 1.5x and not 2x on their phone? Mate, that's nonsense. Just do a comparison yourself and you'll see. I did, checked and confirmed with the client (jewellery designer where the image quality was important) and they were happy. On my iPad3 the 1.5 product images (at 1200 pixels wide presented half width of screen) were MORE than adequate and very sharp on the iPad. No "blurriness" at all. There is no way in the world you'd be able to tell the images were not 2x when the screen is viewed at normal distance. > "Are you writing this from 1992?" I'm writing this from the real world. In your utopia it seems everyone has unlimited bandwidth on their mobiles to download 1600px images for every product listed, and can see the difference with their bionic vision. I prefer to keep site weight down and enjoy the increased performance as a result. Disagreeing is fine, but your argument amounts to "the site will look amateur hmmkay", and I'm telling you now that the "amateur look" comes from poor UX or clunky design and performance, not whether an image is 1.5x vs 2x. Using a CDN for assets is good, but not always an option/need for a small business website with minimal traffic (such as a jewellery designer's e-store) and keeps the dev costs and complexity down if everything can be handled on the one platform. But I don't disagree with you about using a CDN, it's just that a CDN doesn't suddenly make the frontend more responsive or snappy. Those images still need loading in the browser no matter where they come from. I convince my clients to spend a little bit more on their web host account, to get a bit more CPU performance and memory so that uploading images and so on runs smoothly. Works for me, works for them. Whether it works for anyone else is not my problem! I'm just sharing my approach. Ignore or disagree, it's all good. Good luck. Remember to do things because they work in practice, not because Apple or Google or some random person on HN said to do it that way.