If you store images in Amazon S3, chances are you’re paying more for bandwidth than you should. Every time someone requests an image, S3 serves the original, full resolution, uncompressed, in whatever format you uploaded. No resizing for mobile. No…
There’s a lot of talk about image optimization, compression settings, lazy loading, CDNs. All useful stuff. But one decision gets made before any of that: which format to save the image in. JPEG or PNG? WebP or AVIF? What about…
There’s a lot of advice out there about image optimization. Compress your files. Use WebP or AVIF. Lazy load. All genuinely useful. What gets far less attention is the text side of images, the alt text, the title, the caption.…
When you make things like posters or magazines, you use CMYK colors. But screens like TVs and computers use RGB colors. It’s critical to correctly switch these colors to look good in your print and screen images. No worries, it’s…
Adding images to your PowerPoint presentations can make your message more impactful and your ideas clearer. However, large image files can quickly increase the size of your PowerPoint, making it harder to share and slower to open. To avoid this,…
HTTP/3 keeps coming up in performance conversations. Hosting providers mention it, CDNs advertise it, PageSpeed audits reference it. But what does it actually mean for your images and your Core Web Vitals scores? Turns out, some things change, some things…