Optimizing images in JPG format

So, graphics for Your pages is ready. But putting it on the server is too early, because it has been said more than once-if the pages swing for a long time, then there is no use from them. This article focuses on optimizing JPG images.

This format stores images with a color depth of 24bpp (TrueColor) and uses lossy compression. It does not have many ways to optimize, or rather, one: to choose the optimal compression ratio.

To implement such optimization, we need a graphics package or utility that allows us to adjust the compression ratio of the image. Unfortunately, photoshop in the basic configuration does not allow us to freely adjust the compression ratio (it offers several fixed values). Continue reading →