why does the poster image of c/linux have 3.8mb?
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This is the link to the image. It has 3.8mb. In my opinion that is way too much.
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This is the link to the image. It has 3.8mb. In my opinion that is way too much.
Everyone fully missing the point here. This is the banner image for !linux@programming.dev (that's not where we are right now for the record), and it has a normal JPEG size of 7.7MB. When it's served as WebP it's 3.8MB. OP is correct that this is very stupid and wasteful for a web content image. It's a triple-monitor 1440p wallpaper that's used verbatim, and it should instead be compressed down to be bandwidth-friendly. I was able to get it to 1.4MB at JPEG quality 80, and when swapping it out in dev tools and performing A/B testing I can't tell the difference. This should be brought to the attention of a mod on that community so it can stop sucking people's data for no reason.
It could be resized too. 5120x1440 is way too big for a website banner. There's no reason to go more than double the size it will actually be displayed at. That would bring it down to a couple hundred KB.
Thank you!
I got it to 47 KB after resizing it to 850px by 239px, heh