Google Chrome Labs releases open source, browser-based image optimization tool, Squoosh
As web pages have advanced over the years, they have also dramatically increased in size. This has gradually contributed to pages loading slower and slower. To help web developers easily optimize their pages, Google Chrome Labs has released a new web tool called Squoosh that can downsize, compress, and reformat images.
[...] Supporting a variety of web formats like MozJPEG and WebP and traditional ones like PNG, Squoosh allows you to quickly make your images web-ready. The app is able to do 1:1 visual comparisons of the original image and its compressed counterpart, to help you understand the pros and cons of each format.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Snotnose on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:11PM (8 children)
Images arern't the problem. It's all the tracking and advertising scripts that come with every page. A 2 meg download for a 35k png file is silly.
Why shouldn't we judge a book by it's cover? It's got the author, title, and a summary of what the book's about.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:41PM (1 child)
It's not for the visitor. It's for the webmaster. The 2 MB of ad scripts aren't a problem since its hosted somewhere else. So they optimize the images.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @06:51PM
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:00PM (5 children)
uBlock Origin and NoScript likely save me a lot more bandwidth than Squoosh ever would.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:29PM (4 children)
Go pro, try uMatrix. It will replace both.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:49PM
Seconded, uMatrix is excellent.
(Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:22AM
Agree uMatrix is great
Don't trust the police or the government - Shihad: My mind's sedate.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:23AM (1 child)
Specifically, uMatrix offers the granular control I crave.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 15 2018, @03:23PM
. . . without the UI sugars that are not good for you.
I strongly prefer uMatrix. On Chrome and Firefox.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.