How to Use Screenshots in Production
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While looking at a WebPageTest waterfalls, I often come across surprising attributes. A few weeks back, I came across a page that had images with a familiar file naming convention:▻https://twitter.com/dougsillars/status/1086196363010949121This website is using the Mac screenshot tool to create images that they are using online!Image OptimizationI’ve written a lot about image optimization, on GIFs, Base64 encoding and more (read more at dougsillars.com). My gut feeling was that websites that use screenshots are not optimizing the content for the web. So I decided to find out.Are Screen Shot Images On The Web Optimized?The HTTP Archive dataset for January 2019 has data on the load characteristics of ~4M mobile websites. Searching the filenames of all requests made for those sites, I (...)