Optimizing images for the web – an in-depth guide

It’s very easy for unoptimized images to end up on a production site and slow down its initial load considerably. Inexperienced devs usually aren’t aware of this potential problem. They also aren’t aware of a wide range of tools and approaches for optimizing images.

This article aims to cover most of the tools and approaches for optimizing images for the web.

Good to see that it also covers native lazy image loading. The smallest image still remains an image not loaded unnecessarily 😉

Optimizing images for the web – an in-depth guide →

💁‍♂️ Addy Osmani’s Essential Image Optimization is also worth a look.

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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