Responsive images to the rescue! Right? Well, yes, but first we have to generate our responsive image assets, and we have to make sure those assets look good and have a small enough footprint to improve the website’s performance.įor a very small website, saving a few different sizes of each image directly in our image editor is trivial - Photoshop even provides a handy “Save for Web” option that keeps file sizes low. (Image: HTTP Archive) ( View large version) The average web page is 2,099 KB, 1,310 KB of which comes from images. Improving web performance and giving a better experience to our users is our job as developers and designers. Even on a fast connection, a 2 MB website can wreak havoc on your users’ data plans and cost them real money. At the same time, millions of people are accessing the Internet on 3G-or-worse connections that make a 2 MB website a horror show to use. The average web page is about 2 MB in size, and about two thirds of that weight is from images.
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