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Instagram and Optimizing Favicons
ShareSomething interesting and cool happened with photo sharing service Instagram in the last week. No, I’m not talking about Facebook buying them for $1,000,000,000.00. I’m referring to Instagram...
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Unsuitable Image Formats for Websites
Share As I mentioned in our How Fast Is … USPS.com video and blog post yesterday, I discovered a few TIFF files on the US Postal Service’s website. I thought a follow up post about images suitable for...
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How Do Google’s Animated Doodles Work?
Share Sunday was Earth Day. As with many holidays or anniversaries, Google celebrated Earth Day with an animated doodle. This is certainly not the first animated doodle that Google has done. Since I...
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Achieving Better Image Optimization with Lossy Techniques
Share According to the HTTP Archive, images are the dominant form of content on the web today. They account for the largest number of requests when loading a webpage as well as the most amount of data...
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How Fast Is… FIFA’s World Cup Website?
Share Our regular video series How Fast Is…? examines real world websites and details the cause of their performances issues as well as what should be done to solve them. After all, the best way to...
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Visualizing image optimizations with hex editors and strings
ShareI’m a big fan of image optimizations, and have written several posts about it. Images dominate the web in terms of both byte size and request count. Luckily, they are super easy to optimize with...
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From Performance Issue to Bug to 3 New Features
Share“It has to be a bug” I thought. “This makes absolutely no sense!” We were about to go live with a major new product, and I had just found what looked like a show-stopping bug. But it wasn’t a bug....
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Content Detection: A wretched hive of scum and villainy
ShareA few days ago, I wrote about how the BBC was serving a BMP image as a JPEG. Several people have asked me why would this even work at all? The file extension and the MIME Type both implied it was...
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Detected and Optimizing Mismatched Image Formats
ShareServing the wrong image type can really hurt web performance. An improperly saved image can waste bandwidth and delay the page load time. In this blog post, I’ll show how you can use the file and...
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Ridiculously Easy: Use WP-Smush.it to Speed Up Your WordPress Web Performance
ShareFor quite some time here at Zoompf we’ve been trumpeting the benefits of image optimization for speeding up your website. It stands to reason that the majority of content on a typical website is...
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