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In part one (One pixel is worth three thousand words) of this turned-to-be-two-part blog post, I discussed one-pixel images and how well different image formats “compress” these images. I was surprised how much there is to be said about the matter. This was supposed to be a short blog…

A couple of months ago while taking a break from implementing cool new features like q_auto and g_auto, I was joking in our team chat about how well various image formats “compress” one-pixel images. In response, Orly — who runs the blog — asked me if I’d…

If it’s June, Cloudinary must be in the throes of conference season. In a recent blog post, we discussed how we WOW’d the crowd with our fully automated image management tools, exhibiting at Velocity Santa Clara. But that wasn’t the only place we have…

Developing a great website and maintaining it can be a challenging and time-consuming task, even for the most talented developer. You need to meet graphic design requirements for any device according to the latest design trends, and constantly find ways to optimize your website performance, for any browser. We can…

Attending our first Velocity Web Performance Conference, we wanted to WOW attendees with the Cloudinary solution. And WOW them we did, with the announcement of our new “Images Solved” enhancements, which offer fully automated content- and context-aware image adaptation. We decided to launch these…

Time is money Patience is not a virtue for website visitors and online shoppers. Every fraction of a second counts when it comes to keeping – or losing – a visitor to your website. Loading time is a major contributing factor to page abandonment, according to an…

The most common frustrations voiced by people when visiting a website are the time it takes for pages to load and the amount of bandwidth some sites eat from their monthly mobile plans. What these users might not realize is that, in many cases, the culprit is the same: website…

As a developer, you want to allow your users to download multiple files in a single click. An easy way to download multiple files and share them is to generate a ZIP file. When images are involved, you may also want to normalize the original images before including them in…

This is a guest post by Georgi Kadrev, co-founder and CEO, Imagga. Imagga develops and offers technologies, services, and online tools for visual image recognition. Cloudinary provides an add-on for using Imagga’s image recognition capabilities, fully integrated into Cloudinary’s image management and transformation pipeline.   Many…