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Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by lazide »

jacurtis wrote: post #40
noitpmeder wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone know the story behind these? How do seemingly obscure sites consistently get massive amount of obscure content placed highly in results.

What most of them do is they will use Wordpress exploits to get into random wordpress website ran by people who know nothing about managing a website and are running on a $3/mo shared hosting account. After they get into these random wordpress sites, then then embed links back to their sketchy site in obscure places on the wordpress site that they hacked, so that owners of the site don't notice, but search bots do. T…

Pretty sure closed source wasn’t very effective at stopping 0days either (Windows). The most common platform gets the attention generally.

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by JohnTHaller »

arp242 wrote: post #26

I got mine down to 160 bytes with some pixel tweaking and converting it to a 16-color indexed PNG. It's not a lot of work or very difficult (I'm an idiot at graphics editing), but you do need to spend the (small amount of) effort. I embed it as a data URI and it's just four lines of (col-80 wrapped) base64 text, which seems reasonable to me. Haven't managed to get my headshot down to less than 10k without looking hor…

256x256 PNG reduced to 256 colors with pixel transparency gets it to 2.68K. I manually dropped the color depth to indexed and saved it out in PhotoShop and I used FileOptimizer to shrink it. It includes 12 different image shrinkers and runs them all.

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by gremloni »

fbrchps wrote: post #34
arp242 wrote: post #26

I got mine down to 160 bytes with some pixel tweaking and converting it to a 16-color indexed PNG. It's not a lot of work or very difficult (I'm an idiot at graphics editing), but you do need to spend the (small amount of) effort. I embed it as a data URI and it's just four lines of (col-80 wrapped) base64 text, which seems reasonable to me. Haven't managed to get my headshot down to less than 10k without looking hor…

Oh hey, Discord must have seen this article -- their favicon is down to 14k now.

That’s lit and a fantastic turnaround. Great work to whoever is reading this!

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by nanis »

I know of a company whose favicon was a hires true color PNG that weighed in at more than 2 MB. The web site was the dominion of marketing. Suggestions to improve the situation were detrimental to one's career path. sigh

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by vadfa »

nerfhammer wrote: post #35
arp242 wrote: post #26

I got mine down to 160 bytes with some pixel tweaking and converting it to a 16-color indexed PNG. It's not a lot of work or very difficult (I'm an idiot at graphics editing), but you do need to spend the (small amount of) effort. I embed it as a data URI and it's just four lines of (col-80 wrapped) base64 text, which seems reasonable to me. Haven't managed to get my headshot down to less than 10k without looking hor…

there are png optimizer programs, e.g. optipng

`optipng -o9 -strip all' is a must

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by arp242 »

TheJoeMan wrote: post #33
arp242 wrote: post #26

I got mine down to 160 bytes with some pixel tweaking and converting it to a 16-color indexed PNG. It's not a lot of work or very difficult (I'm an idiot at graphics editing), but you do need to spend the (small amount of) effort. I embed it as a data URI and it's just four lines of (col-80 wrapped) base64 text, which seems reasonable to me. Haven't managed to get my headshot down to less than 10k without looking hor…

“ I got that 280k Discord favicon down to just 24K simply by opening it in GIMP and saving it again. “ You made me laugh out loud. I agree that stuff like YouTube.com saying 144x but really 145x seems like it should be embarrassing.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was for a specific reason, like somehow showing up better somewhere for some reason, or something like that. Or maybe not; who knows...

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by pseudosavant »

nerfhammer wrote: post #35
arp242 wrote: post #26

I got mine down to 160 bytes with some pixel tweaking and converting it to a 16-color indexed PNG. It's not a lot of work or very difficult (I'm an idiot at graphics editing), but you do need to spend the (small amount of) effort. I embed it as a data URI and it's just four lines of (col-80 wrapped) base64 text, which seems reasonable to me. Haven't managed to get my headshot down to less than 10k without looking hor…

there are png optimizer programs, e.g. optipng

The Squoosh (web) app is awesome for this too! All processing is done locally with wasm.

https://squoosh.app

Re: We analyzed 425k favicons

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Post by 0des »

unicornporn wrote: post #15
gurgeous wrote: post #14

Also, we turned up 2,000 domains that redirect to a very shady site called happyfamilymedstore[dot]com. Stuff like avanafill[dot]com, pfzviagra[dot]com, prednisoloneotc[dot]com. These domains made it into the Tranco 100k somehow. Full list here - https://gist.github.com/gurgeous/bcb3e851087763efe4b2f4b992f...

Lately, happyfamilymedstore has mysteriously always been in the top ~ten Google Images results for super niche bicycle parts searches I do. They seem to have ripped an insane amount if images that gets reposted on their domain.

What kind of parts are you looking for?
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