Most effective way of reducing load times and bandwidth usage of images

javascript,filesize,page-load-time,load-time,image-optimization

Use what you need. Nothing more. If your website has content that requires a 1MB image to serve its purpose, then so be it... use it. If you can get away with a 50KB version because it isn't central to your content, then go that route. Guidelines are just that......

pagespeed_optimize_image.exe returning worse results than Google Page Speed Extension

image,pagespeed,google-pagespeed,image-optimization

Sadly, I got my answer at Google Page Speed Service Discuss (about pagespeed_optimize_image.exe)(...) it's pretty outdated. It's not related to PageSpeed Service at all, which uses a different image optimization stack. We would like to release a binary to statically optimize your images, but we just haven't been able to...

Linux script that will monitor folders and optimise image files? [closed]

linux,image-processing,optimization,amazon-s3,image-optimization

if you can use a hook into inotify, use that. for example, let incron monitor specific directories, to which files are added or modified. if so, incron passes control to a program of your choice. convert, from imagemagick, can be useful for reducing image filesizes. incron can pass name of...