Pictures are worth a thousand words…and sometimes 1,000MB. A cautionary tale.

A presentation at DevFest 2018 in in Melbourne VIC, Australia by Anton Ball

You spent hours shaking all the trees, shaving 20kb off JS bundles, ensuring gzip is enabled, all code is minified. How would you feel if one image undid all your work, 10x over? Images are the real cause for concern when talking optimisation. I’ll run through choosing the best type of image, ensuring it’s the correct size and compression. Enhance your optimisation efforts, by including these image techniques.

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