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The case for JPEG XL

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Optimizing images with the HTML <picture> tag

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Compressing Images with Stable Diffusion

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Losslessly Optimising Images

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Buttery Smooth “10fps” (2020)

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Video codecs and 4k

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WebP is such a goated format

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AVIF has landed (2020)

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The fastest GIF does not exist

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Websites should not use dithered images

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NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain

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Dithered images and websites (2020)

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How Facebook encodes videos

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Web developer's guide to AVIF images

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An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)

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How Video Works

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Is WebP really better than JPEG?

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Serve Videos Instead of GIFs

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

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Web Graphics Done Right

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It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video

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Better web video with AV1 codec

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Don’t use JPEG-XR on the Web

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Modern codecs like AV1 can bring better quality video to the open web

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Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62%

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Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF

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Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG

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CineForm Goes Open Source

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Making Visible Watermarks More Effective

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Generating Images in JavaScript Without Using the Canvas API

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Base-122 – A space efficient alternative to base-64

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VP9 is now available in WebRTC

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Why BPG will replace GIFs and more

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Animated SVG vs. GIF

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Perceptual Image Compression at Flickr

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The technology behind preview photos

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8-bit GIFs of Japanese life

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Another round of image bugs: PNG and JPEG XR

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Show HN: Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs

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TinyJPG – compress JPEG files with a balance between quality and file size

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Gnome developer creates new animated image format

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Building a Graphics Card For the Internet: A tour of the newest Imgix datacenter

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Twitter's GIF hack

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Compressor.io – Compress and optimize your images

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How web browsers resize images

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Show HN: Kraken.io – image optimization service

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Why does this png display differently in Chrome/Firefox than in Safari/IE?

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New Solution Can Cut Video File Size By Half – Without Losing Quality

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The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF

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Progressive JPEGs: a new best practice

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iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas

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The Tiniest GIF Ever

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TinyPNG: Lossy compression for PNG that preserves full transparency.

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PNG vs JPG: 6 simple lessons you can learn from our mistakes

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Abusing Amazon Images

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WebP is so great except it's not (2021)

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Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS

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Video with Alpha Transparency on the Web

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