Image optimization pipeline
Images are the one of the oldest items on the web (right after HTML) and still so little has changed since we started to use them. That's if you don't count lots of creative talent that went into creating them, so much in fact that it created the web as we know now, rich, shiny and full of marketing potential. That being said, images on our websites are the largest payload shifted back and forth across the wires of the net taking big part in slowing down pages. Still we can safely assume that we are going to have only more images and they will only grow bigger, along with the screen resolutions on user computers. If you want to stop slowing down your pages and reducing user experience, it's time to take images seriously and implement image processing pipeline within your organization!
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Image optimization pipeline
- 1. BEFORE AFTER IMAGE OPTIMIZATION PIPELINE
- 2. SERGEY CHERNYSHEV • Work at truTV/Turner • Organize NY Meetup • Developed ShowSlow and a few other tools @SergeyChe, @PerfPlanet
- 5. WHY IMAGES? • Largest Payload (63%) • Grew 21% in size in 2011 • Main connection blocker • The visual indicator 598K • We will only get more of them
- 6. AUTOMATE • Extra step in photo editor's workflow • Not obvious to photo editors, they shouldn't care • User Generated Content can't be manually processed
- 7. WHERE TO AUTOMATE? • PhotoShop scripting • CMS hooks • Version control commit hooks • Application logic (especially for UGC) • File system monitors
- 8. SMUSHING (lossless compression) • Removes meta-data • Preserves quality • Saves more then you think! • Kudos to Stoyan & Nicole META-DATA
- 9. LOSSY COMPRESSION Increase compression until quality visibly degrades 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%
- 10. LOSSY COMPRESSION But it heavily depends on size and content of an image 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%
- 11. LOSSY COMPRESSION AUTOMATION ImgMin
- 12. CSS SPRITES • Games are cool! • Reduces latency cost • SpriteMe.org • Don't overdo it • We need automation for this!
- 13. RESIZE TO SIZE Responsive Design http://blog.braintraffic.com/2012/01/content-strategy-and-responsive-design/
- 14. RESIZE TO SIZE Preserving Proportions • Thumbnails! • Never resize in the browser • Createa map of sizes for each image type Changing Proportions • Changing proportions is hard • Do not resize on the fly
- 15. LOAD LATER
- 16. LOAD LATER
- 17. LOAD LATER <SPAN CLASS="POSTLOAD" DATA-URL="/AWESOME.JPG" DATA-ALT="AWESOME PIC" ></SPAN> <IMG SRC="/AWESOME.JPG" ALT="AWESOME PIC" />
- 18. REWRITE URLS <IMG SRC="<?=U('/AWESOME.JPG') ?>" ALT="AWESOME PIC" /> • Enabling/disabling and • Caching forever moving CDNs (including SSL) • Data URIs? • Domain sharding • Different setups in DEV/QA/PROD
- 20. CACHE FOREVER Far-future Expires and Cache-Control headers
- 21. CACHE FOREVER Far-future Expires and Cache-Control headers Finger-print the URL with hash of the content