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Among the image formats available today, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) works for both static and animated images. A popular use of GIF images—commonly called GIFs—is to repeatedly loop motions, which you cannot in real life. Many people have turned themselves into online celebrities through effective application of GIFs. Cloudinary is…

Doug Sillars, a digital nomad and a freelance mobile-performance expert, answers questions about video streaming and delivery, website optimization, and more. Doug Sillars, a freelance mobile-performance expert and developer advocate, is a Google Developer Expert and the author of O’Reilly’s High Performance Android Apps. Given his extensive…

Cloudinary is a cloud-based, end-to-end solution for downloading, storing, editing, optimizing, and delivering images and videos. Note that editing means that you can transform images and videos, that is, resize and add numerous effects to them. Images encoded in graphics interchange format (GIF) are called animated GIFs, which contain…

TL;DR Gifs are awesome but terrible for quality and performance Replacing Gifs with <video> is /better/ but has perf. drawbacks: not preloaded, uses range requests Now you can <img src=".mp4">s in Safari Technology Preview Early results show mp4s in <img> tags display 20x faster and decode 7x faster than…

tl;dr Cloudinary is a powerful media management solution for email marketing campaigns of any size. With features such as advanced image optimization and on-the-fly image transformation, backed by a global CDN, Cloudinary provides the base for a seamless user experience in your email campaigns leading to increased conversion and performance.

JPEGs, PNGs, and GIFs — oh my! Most web developers only learn which format to use through trial, error, and long experience, and not necessarily by fully understanding how these formats actually work. In this article, we’ll take a high-level look at each formats’ compression algorithms, in order to understand…

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…