{"id":21327,"date":"2015-11-12T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudinary_s_first_time_at_web_summit"},"modified":"2024-08-15T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T22:12:37","slug":"cloudinary_s_first_time_at_web_summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/cloudinary_s_first_time_at_web_summit","title":{"rendered":"Cloudinary&#8217;s First Time at Web Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>Last week I was part of a three member Cloudinary team that attended and exhibited at <strong>Web Summit 2015 in Dublin<\/strong>. Just in the last four years, the event has grown from a few hundred people to more than 42,000 people from 134 countries who attended this year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Attendees and speakers ranged from executives at some of the top names in the field and on the Fortune 500 list, to the world\u2019s most exciting startup tech companies and VCs seeking their next success story. We were excited to see our friends at AWS and a number of our customers at the event, including Stylight, Homehapp, and PluralSight whose CPO also spoke about developing products to scale.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We had good traffic at our booth. Many of our visitors were start-ups that are developing apps that include the ability to upload photos. Like many of our customers, these companies were struggling with <strong>how to manage the growing numbers of images and videos on their mobile apps, making their users\u2019 experience flawless, and delivering the best quality images for virtually any kind of device<\/strong>. To say they were impressed with the capabilities we offer, and our solution\u2019s ease of use, is an understatement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Session Recap: What We Learned<\/h2>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We also had the opportunity to attend a number of the educational sessions. One presentation by Akamai stood out, as it really detailed the problems our users face and the challenges we help them address. Akamai addressed its State of the Internet report, which outlines online connectivity, cyber-security trends and metrics from Akamai\u2019s CDN, including Internet connection speeds, broadband adoption, mobile usage, outages, cyber attacks and threats. Much of what was discussed focused on the growth of mobile connections and<strong> how web pages are now much heavier than in the past <\/strong>because they feature more media \u2013 including high-resolution photos and high-definition videos \u2013 and<strong> today\u2019s Internet isn\u2019t setup to handle the vast amounts of bandwidth required by a growing base of users.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For example, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radware.com\/Documents\/Infographics\/SOTU-EcommercePageSpeed-Spring-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 State of the Union: Ecommerce Page Speed &amp; Web Performance<\/a> report by Radware, <strong>images typically comprise as much as 60 percent of a page\u2019s total weight<\/strong>, making them fertile territory for optimization. Yet <strong>43 percent of the top 100 retail sites fail to compress images, and only 10 percent received top marks for image compression.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Image Optimizations Lead to Higher Conversions<\/h2>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At Cloudinary we talk about the importance of<strong> optimizing graphics<\/strong> <strong>so that websites and apps load faster,<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ceblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/walmart.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">because that directly impacts the conversion rates<\/a> for ecommerce platforms. For example, Walmart experienced up to a 2 percent increase in conversion rates on its website for every second that its website loaded faster. 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