Results for Tag ‘Performance Optimization’

Approximately 62 percent of today’s online content is made up of images, optimizing which is a must to speed up loading of media-rich websites. A fast-loading site makes your visitors happy, which as a rule leads to higher conversion rates. This article shows you how to optimize images in…

The Hub is decentralizing the creative process through its two-sided online marketplace that changes the way brands hire creators. The old model of committing all creative resources to one agency of record has proven time-consuming and expensive. Additionally, brands are limited to content that is only as good as…

Shortcut to Cloudinary’s solution Compressing images is one form of image optimization. Its objective is to achieve the smallest possible file size but no loss in visual quality. This way, you save bytes and improve website performance because the smaller the image…

The goal of website image optimization is to efficiently serve them online. Properly optimized web images result in improved performance, which makes viewers happy. It also makes search engines happy since priority rankings are given to faster pages. You can optimize web images in many ways. Some of…

Most might know Bloomsbury Publishing as the publisher of the Harry Potter series. What you might not know is that the publishing house also has a vibrant academic division that offers digital reproductions of encyclopedias, manuscripts and museum collections for use by university libraries and researchers. Seeking a way to…

Images take up over 60% of modern websites’ total bandwidth. In the case of cutting-edge, image-rich designs, such as those for social media like Pinterest, that number is, remarkably, over 85%. Bandwidth is a costly commodity that gobbles up most of the IT budget of high-traffic sites, easily surpassing hosting…

Reformation is a Los Angeles-based fashion brand that designs and sells sustainable, eco-friendly women’s apparel and accessories in a small fraction of the time that more traditional fashion houses take. And while the company runs several brick-and-mortar stores across the United States, its business is conducted mostly online, with…

Through various techniques and algorithms, you can optimize images, that is, reduce their file size yet still maintain a high visual quality. This article shows you how to optimally reduce image sizes in Ruby and Cloudinary. The Importance of Image Optimization Effective management of images involves taking into account…

Part of what draws us to retail stores is their ability to connect to our senses: sight, touch, hearing, and smell. Connections that extend beyond products include decor and store employees. When transforming the experience into online shopping, these natural senses are substituted with a sense of the virtual experience.