Back in February 2008, I shared a posting about one of my favorite disc golf sites out there, discgolfersR.us. A year and a half later, we’re still talking about the issue of image optimization a bit on that site, as can be seen at: http://discgolfer.ning.com/forum/topics/members-using-front-page-for
I’m just happy we’re talking about it…as if even 1-2 more people read some of those discussions and then begin to take much greater care when posting imagery to that site (and others), the Internet will be just a bit better place to be! While talking about image optimization issues on the site again though, I thought I would look at a few more images on the site to see what might be able to be done.
16 Unoptimized .png graphics of flags – 60.4 KB
16 Optimized .png graphics of flags – 17.9 KB
A simple PNGSlim batch optimization process on those 16 .png flags took 60.4 KB of imagery and reduced them to 17.9 KB in cumulative size, and improvement of 70 percent. Not bad…particularly when you consider how much the site has grown the past eighteen months, and how much more traffic it is now generating.
Keep up the great work, Terry! You are a blessing to all of us in the greater disc golfing community.
