Yahoo web tool speeds up image shrinking
Published: 06 Oct 2008 12:00 BST
Yahoo, which has considerable expertise in maximising website performance, has long offered advice on how to speed up sites up by minimising photo size. Now it's released a tool to help web programmers automate the process.
The web-based tool, called Smush It, can perform multiple operations to shrink graphics file sizes without impairing visual appeal, Chris Heilmann of the Yahoo Developer Network said in a blog post after tool creators Nicole Sullivan and Stoyan Stefanov announced the tool at this week's Ajax Experience conference.
The operations Smush It can do include: convert GIF images to the PNG format; reduce the range of colours used in PNG files; strip out textual metadata from JPEG images.
Web developers can upload images to the site, send it a website address, or install a Firefox extension that submits a particular website with the click of a button. The tool presents users with a downloadable package of the smaller images that can be substituted.
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