Comments on: Optimize Your Web Images Online With Smush It http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/07/08/optimize-your-web-images-online-with-smush-it/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:23:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/07/08/optimize-your-web-images-online-with-smush-it/comment-page-1/#comment-928592 Anonymous Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:08:50 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=12082#comment-928592 sdsd<em><blockquote><code></code></blockquote></em> sdsd

]]> By: mikebrady http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/07/08/optimize-your-web-images-online-with-smush-it/comment-page-1/#comment-928305 mikebrady Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:30:07 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=12082#comment-928305 Wow, thanks! This tool is great! I've reduced the file size of almost every image on my site drastically. Even after saving for the web in PS. Wow, thanks! This tool is great! I’ve reduced the file size of almost every image on my site drastically. Even after saving for the web in PS.

]]> By: TomBradshaw http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/07/08/optimize-your-web-images-online-with-smush-it/comment-page-1/#comment-928277 TomBradshaw Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:17:20 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=12082#comment-928277 Those are some impressive stats, thanks for the info Jennifer. I'll have to give this a go! Those are some impressive stats, thanks for the info Jennifer. I’ll have to give this a go!

]]> By: captainh2ok http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/07/08/optimize-your-web-images-online-with-smush-it/comment-page-1/#comment-928265 captainh2ok Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:57:17 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=12082#comment-928265 <blockquote>I installed the plug-in and it didn’t work properly for me.</blockquote> This morning i run an update for my plugins in Firefox 3.5 manually, and there is a new (beta) version of YSlow. Now it works also in FF 3.5!

I installed the plug-in and it didn’t work properly for me.

This morning i run an update for my plugins in Firefox 3.5 manually, and there is a new (beta) version of YSlow. Now it works also in FF 3.5!

]]> By: ssttoo http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/07/08/optimize-your-web-images-online-with-smush-it/comment-page-1/#comment-928263 ssttoo Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:17:52 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=12082#comment-928263 Thanks for mentioning the tool, Jeniffer. If anyone's curious how the tool works, I've written a few articles over at the YUIBlog: <a href="http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/10/29/imageopt-1/" rel="nofollow">http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/10/29/imageopt-1/</a> The "secret sauce" is just using free open source programs such as pngcrush, imagemagick and jpgtran for lossless optimization. A much similar feature is also available in Google's PageSpeed extension. It's running optipng instead of pngcrush to optimize PNGs, but the results are pretty similar. The point I've been trying to make for some time is: we have to optimize images. 50% of the average web page is images and 10-30% of the image weight can be optimized. Using free open source tools anyone can run in a batch on all images. After finishing with PS' Save for the Web. Here's also a presentation SP readers might find interesting: http://www.slideshare.net/stoyan/image-optimization-7-mistakes Thanks for mentioning the tool, Jeniffer.

If anyone’s curious how the tool works, I’ve written a few articles over at the YUIBlog:
http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/10/29/imageopt-1/

The “secret sauce” is just using free open source programs such as pngcrush, imagemagick and jpgtran for lossless optimization.

A much similar feature is also available in Google’s PageSpeed extension. It’s running optipng instead of pngcrush to optimize PNGs, but the results are pretty similar.

The point I’ve been trying to make for some time is: we have to optimize images. 50% of the average web page is images and 10-30% of the image weight can be optimized. Using free open source tools anyone can run in a batch on all images. After finishing with PS’ Save for the Web.

Here’s also a presentation SP readers might find interesting:
http://www.slideshare.net/stoyan/image-optimization-7-mistakes

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