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JPG Compression - The Bandwidth Saver
Mr.Tweak writes "TweakTown has posted an article entitled "JPG Compression - The Bandwidth Saver". An article for webmasters and site owners showing how they can significantly reduce the amount of bandwidth they use by compressing JPG images, one of the most common formats for web images. If you own a website and don't yet have knowledge in the field of JPG compression, you should find this very interesting indeed - Save money on bandwidth and please viewers at the same time with quicker loading webpages. They also talk briefly at JPEG2000."
Computers can make problems requiring complex repetitive calculations a much less onerous task to solve. I highly recommend that people apply computers to difficult scientific questions.
Edith Keeler Must Die
Compression? I'd just been renaming my .bmp's to .jpg - you mean I actually have to "compress" them to a .jpg to gain any benefit? Wow, my readers will sure be pleased. Next, you'll be telling me that my Flash-only websites should use shapes & instances instead of manually manipulating every pixel.
I once shot a man in Reno 'cause they cancelled Firefly.
In other news:
Anonymouse Cowarde has posted an article entitled "Power Switch - The Energy Saver". An article for geeks and computer owners showing how they can significantly reduce the amount of power they use by turning off your computer when you're not using it, using one of the most common buttons found on the front of most PCs. If you own a computer and don't yet have knowledge in the field of energy, you should find this very interesting indeed - Save money on electricty and please your significant other at the same time with a quieter room and lower energy bill. They also talk briefly at APM.
Q: What's the best way to speed up your connection?
A: Run less data through it.
I can write an article about this if Slashdot is interested.
"Derp de derp."
Now say 2000 different people read that same review uncached, we save a total of roughly 908mb in outbound data bandwidth for that single review. If 5000 people were to read that review, we are talking gigabytes of bandwidth which can be saved through compression, 2.27gb to be exact. I'll let the stunning numbers speak for themselves.
Sorta ironic how thousands of people are downloading that article right now!
Web Designer 1: "Hey, this JPG compression will save our average 56k user about 5 seconds on load time."
Web Designer 2: "That's means we can load even more useless content on our website and they won't notice the difference!"
Web Designer 1: "As well as include more popup and banner ads, too!"
i use LZW, if that helps?
I want 2D games back.
I wholehartely agree. Can an editor change the title to "image/jpeg Compression"?
Pardon me, I seem to have accidentally stepped into a conversation from 10 YEARS AGO.
Man, now I am going to have to redesign my page to get rid of all those uncompressed TIFFs.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Yes, but using "JPG" instead of "JPEG" saves a byte of bandwidth.
Now if only they could convince people to build pages that have fewer than 100 GETs, it might actually make a difference.
would be "Stating the fucking obvious."
Jeez. Why is this on slashdot?
-- Will program for bandwidth
I submitted this story in 1990 and it was rejected. What gives?
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Mr. Tweak "submitting" a story about his own site, and Hemos going "yeah, now this is TECH!!!!!!!!!!"? Or is Tweaktown allied with /. in some way? No one reads this site anymore for the info, the reader comments are the most entertaining now. /. has become a joke regarding tech news.
new headline: "Attracting user attention with the tag!"
Just raise the taxes on crack.
*Hemos and buds in a smoke filled room*
"Dude, this image is only 20 fucking kilobytes big."
"Whoa."
"Damn."
"You just blew my mind."
"POST IT!"