Reducing Image Bytes

Sunday, May 24, 2026

Part 3 of 8 — Image Optimisation for the Modern Web

The first step of optimisation is to reduce the number of images and what browser needs to download. A useful way to think about this is:

The cheapest image byte is the one the browser never has to download.

That does not only me...

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