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Optimizing Images on Alexa's Top 100 Global Sites
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Re: Optimizing Images on Alexa's Top 100 Global Sites
#12A third of Google's image size is this thing: https://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/oz/images/notifications/spinner_3... which is basically a loading icon that is rarely seen. How does HTTP compression factor into image optimization? Is it possible to optimize an image but the HTTP compressed size ends up being greater? You should release a monthly report with this same algorithm. You should also put in a column for competitors…
That obnoxious spinner is used for Mr. Tinkles, the Asshole Of Notification. Because even after Mr. Tinkles starts ringing out, he has no idea what to say. So when you click on him to make him shut the hell up, he still hasn't loaded the hundred bytes of your notification, and you have to look at that stupid spinner while all of Google's horrifying social storage infrastructure lurches into action. And because Mr. Tinkles is part of Google's all-in Social Death Pact, you have to load that image on every Google property: Gmail, Maps, Drive, Search, everything.
Re: Optimizing Images on Alexa's Top 100 Global Sites
#13Hm, tested the field/mountain comparison from kraken.io first page on JPEGmini - 184kb on jpegmini vs 242kb on Kraken.io Seems their solution is both cheaper and better? http://www.jpegmini.com/
Well the server version start at $199. So i dont think that is cheap.
Considering you are not limited to any amount of images, yes it is.
Re: Optimizing Images on Alexa's Top 100 Global Sites
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
There might be a browser support issue that prevents doing it. The bandwidth and mobile loading might not be an issue because of their massive amount of data-centers to serve content from. It seems like it to would be easy to test the new image to see if anyone reports any issues, but there might just not be any benefits to reducing the homepage image by 40%. Make sure you consider that the homepage image is being sc…
> but there might just not be any benefits to reducing the homepage image by 40% There would be advantages to people on limited bandwidth mobile data plans? I'm gently curious about the amount of CO2 it takes to push that extra 40% through the Internet. (Off topic: Seeing the Daily Mail on the Alexa list is profoundly depressing.)
CO2 from extra bandwidth? Probably less than a text-message.
According to this "Club Penguins" are a major source of CO2, I'm not sure why. http://visualization.geblogs.com/visualization/co2/#/club_pe...