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Deporvillage Reaches Peak Performance With Cloudinary

Topics Asset Management, Case Studies, Performance Optimization
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Providing an exceptional shopping experience to sports and fitness enthusiasts in Spain and throughout Europe is the primary goal of Deporvillage, a top online sports retailer. Offering more than 60,000 premium-brand products, Deporvillage is expanding in Europe and plans to grow globally. With monthly unique page views totaling 30 million…

Smart Cropping, Intelligent Quality Selection, and Automated Responsive Images

Topics Django, DotNet, HTML, Java, Javascript, Node, Performance Optimization, PHP, Responsive Images, Ruby on Rails
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Every image is unique, so are website visitors. In a perfect world, we would adapt images to be “just right” for all users, i.e., perfectly cropped with responsive dimensions, correct encoding settings, and optimal quality in the most suitable format. See this example of a photo of a cat:…

Reducing the Size of Animated GIFs and Converting Them to WebM or MP4 Through Automation

Topics Django, DotNet, Image Transformation, Java, jQuery, Node, Performance Optimization, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Video API
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Short videos of animated GIFs are spreading like wildfire around the web, especially in media and news sites, and people frequently share animated GIFs on social apps. However, because those GIFs are not optimized, their sizes are huge, consuming heavy bandwidth and slowing down page loads. Also, resizing and…

How to Sharpen Or Blur Images Through Automation

Topics Django, DotNet, Image Transformation, Node, Performance Optimization, PHP, Ruby on Rails
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Images. More likely than not, your web or mobile app is filled to the brim with images, which, from graphical appeal to size and access times, figure prominently in the browsing experience. Image appeal could motivate visitors to return and, in the case of e-commerce, become customers.   No…

jQuery Sliders: How to Cut Image Size by 96.3 Percent

Topics jQuery, Performance Optimization
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Many modern homepages feature a slider or carousel to rotate images of, for example, offers from or characters of the brand. Have you noticed that homepages are slow to load, though? The size of the images on sliders could be to blame. A common development vehicle for sliders is jQuery,…

Making the Path to Purchase Visually Engaging and High-Performant

Topics Asset Management, Magento, Partnership, Performance Optimization, Video API
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When was the last time you bought a product without looking at its images or videos? The chance of customers buying a product increases by an order of magnitude when you effectively showcase your brand and products with images and videos. And when you have customers interacting with your brand…

Daily Responsively Delivers Dev News With Optimized Images Around the Clock on Cloudinary

Topics Guest Post, Image Transformation, Performance Optimization
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Daily is an open-source browser-extension that delivers curated software development-related news (dev news for short) to your new tab. Around the clock, we gather and rank articles from 200-plus unique sources, keeping developers in the loop with relevant news in their field. All told, we serve content to over…

Key Retail Takeaways from Incisiv’s Gaurav Pant

Topics e-commerce, Performance Optimization, Video API
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Gaurav Pant, Chief Insights Officer of Incisiv, recently shared his outlook for the retail industry with the Cloudinary team, specifically as it relates to digital retail transformation. You only have to be a consumer to know that digital has dramatically transformed the consumer buyer journey. It stopped being linear…

25 Days of Media Magic: Takeaways

Topics Digital Asset Management, Image Transformation, Performance Optimization
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Happy New Year, folks! As a relentless technology advocate and a developer who’s worked on media transformation for numerous projects over the years, I decided in late 2019 to go on a 25-day journey of sharing my learnings on Twitter. The aim was to show my audience the options available…

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