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This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but that banner image is 10 megabytes, it can be compressed down to 2mb without any perceptible loss of quality. Heck it c
by quadrature 11y ago
This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but that banner image is 10 megabytes, it can be compressed down to 2mb without any perceptible loss of quality. Heck it could probably be shrunk further if you can accept a bit more loss because most of the image is blurry and noisy anyway.
heres a compressed version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bw606t7znouxpj1/photo-1418479631014-8cbf89db3431_mini.jpeg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/bw606t7znouxpj1/photo-141847963101...
- cpeterso 11y agoIronically the original banner image doesn't even load for me on iOS Safari.
- exodust 11y ago10 meg? 4k is all the rage now on mobile. just taken a chunk out of someone's download quota with that nice background!
- quadrature 11y agoI've been thinking of developing a proxy that compresses responses and forwards them to you, specifically to handle sites not optimized for mobile. There are already solutions like this but I think a self hosted version is what people need.
- A_COMPUTER 11y agoThis one has been around a long time: http://www.khelekore.org/rabbit/ http://www.khelekore.org/rabbit/
- quadrature 11y agothanks!, That will definitely help a lot. I was thinking of using squid proxy and writing some custom handlers, but this helps a lot.
- lewisl9029 11y agoGood catch. That is ironic on so many levels. I mean there is even a section on "UX: Bandwidth"... Maybe the author should brush up on image compression best practices and consider adding a subsection on images and other media. EDIT: Realized my previous wording was probably a bit too harsh considering the author is still relatively new to web development.
- quadrature 11y agoHard not to catch it when its loaded in progressively on a 20Mbps connection :P. Websites are way too fat these days.