Where Did 90% of My Photo Go? JPEG Compression, Explained Gently

<p>I look after the client-side encoding path at ImgIng, and a few days ago I spent an afternoon on a sale poster with saturated red text. The poster is programmatic: 1600×900, a

<h2> TL;DR </h2> <p>Modern WebAssembly codecs (MozJPEG, libavif, OxiPNG/imagequant, libwebp, gifsicle, SVGO) now run fast enough in the browser that you can ship a real

<p>What Instagram actually does to your photos</p> <p>Every photo you upload to Instagram gets re-compressed. There are no exceptions. Instagram takes your file, resizes it if

<p>Cropping a GIF should not make it bigger. Ours did, and not by a little: a<br /> 288-frame Foucault pendulum went from 1074 KB in to 4881 KB out, and a 70-frame<br /> gun

<p>Somewhere in your data platform right now, a single configuration property is quietly deciding a meaningful percentage of your storage bill, your query latency, and your