Mozilla’s latest effort, mozjpeg, aims to do that just, by reducing the size of JPEGs by 10% or more.
Version 1.0 of mozjpeg is a fork of libjpeg-turbo (a popular open-source JPEG library), with Loren Merritt’s jpgcrush functionality built in. Without affecting compatibility, if you use mozjpeg to create your images, you should be able to reduce JPEG file size by a full 10%. If you consider that the average web page has around 1MB of images on it — and that figure is growing by 2-3% every month, thanks to faster internet connections and high-res displays — then a 10% reduction is huge. Over a month, if you primarily use your smartphone for surfing websites, a 10% reduction in JPEG size could equate to hundreds of megabytes saved.
To make this a reality, image editors — like Photoshop, Gimp, and Fireworks — need to implement this new mozjpeg library
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Hopefully, Mozjpeg gets release soon, so images on websites load faster because of smaller file sizes.
Version 1.0 of mozjpeg is a fork of libjpeg-turbo (a popular open-source JPEG library), with Loren Merritt’s jpgcrush functionality built in. Without affecting compatibility, if you use mozjpeg to create your images, you should be able to reduce JPEG file size by a full 10%. If you consider that the average web page has around 1MB of images on it — and that figure is growing by 2-3% every month, thanks to faster internet connections and high-res displays — then a 10% reduction is huge. Over a month, if you primarily use your smartphone for surfing websites, a 10% reduction in JPEG size could equate to hundreds of megabytes saved.
To make this a reality, image editors — like Photoshop, Gimp, and Fireworks — need to implement this new mozjpeg library
Read More
Hopefully, Mozjpeg gets release soon, so images on websites load faster because of smaller file sizes.
