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Optimizing images for the web

Optimizing images for the web

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Optimizing images for the web

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- 25 years ago, as the web was getting started and almost everyone was on a slow dial-up connection, web developers were super concerned about how long it took for images to load. Today, as internet connection speeds have increased, our image sizes have increased even faster. Therefore web developers are still concerned about image sizes and their impact on how fast a given page will load. If you download a photo straight off your camera or your phone and place it directly online, chances are that the file size is quite large. For example, images from my phone are typically four to five megabytes each in size. 25 years ago, we used to think an image that was 40 or 50 K in size was quite large. To reduce your image file sizes, there are several aspects about your images to consider. First, are your images in the right file format? For example, if you have a photograph saved as a PNG, the file size will be much larger than if…

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