Optimizing Images on the Web

[furcyd]

https://blog.cloudflare.com/optimizing-images/

[pupppet]

Marketing: "We need to speed up our site!"

Developer works hard to optimize images, gaining a few hundred KBs.

Marketing: "Now go ahead and add these few dozen analytics scripts."

[rektide]

some day, when there's a site i really care about, i'm going to follow Jake Archibald's high-density-screen web image optimizing blog post: https://jakearchibald.com/2021/serving-sharp-images-to-high-...

[XCSme → rektide]

Nice article!

Any way to check in the devtools which src/image is used for the picture element? I checked for the Computed Style of "src", but nothing is shown.

[lukashaensch → rektide]

you so right there is so many optimization techniques that you could do that most don't care the slightest about - my persona favourite is dedicated font optimizations!