Getting the picture, faster.
| Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | --Sean |
Members of our Exceptional Performance team aren't just here to optimize all of our internal sites -- they're trying to make the whole web a better place. That's why you get publicly-available tools like YSlow for grading and improving site performance, and now Smushit, a cool web-based image optimizer. As Chris Heilmann describes over at the Y! Developer Network, Smushit encapsulates all of the research that Nicole Sullivan and Stoyan Stefanov have put into file size optimization for images -- mostly removing metadata from a vast array of image types -- and sticks it an easy-to-use web interface (or Firefox extension, if you like) versus the myriad command line programs you'd have to use otherwise. So, Portage Daily Register, no more excuses for 1.4MB HTML-resized article images, y'hear?