Great suggestion, I agree completely. While there are plenty of great build tools for this out there, one easy suggestion I have is TinyPNG- it's web-based, you just drop the images you want compressed in there and it'll do its magic for you. Even supports jpegs.
Personally I make use of OptiPNG for PNGs and jpegoptim and jpegtran for jpeg files; though I'm sure there's some even better tools out there nowadays.
I'm not sure if smaller is always going to equal faster on slower computers; you might save bandwidth (which is important, of course) but some forms of compression are more difficult to decompress, which is more noticeable on slower computers- I'm not sure how much that applies to image formats, but there's definitely some trade-offs you make with compression formats.
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Personally I make use of OptiPNG for PNGs and jpegoptim and jpegtran for jpeg files; though I'm sure there's some even better tools out there nowadays.
I'm not sure if smaller is always going to equal faster on slower computers; you might save bandwidth (which is important, of course) but some forms of compression are more difficult to decompress, which is more noticeable on slower computers- I'm not sure how much that applies to image formats, but there's definitely some trade-offs you make with compression formats.
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""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
- gothgirlgangblastermaster
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