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  • Reduce website download time by heavily compressing PNG and JPEG

    PNG and JPEG are two most popular formats for web graphics. JPEG is used for photographs, screenshots and backgrounds where PNG is used for all other graphics need including cliparts, buttons, headers, footers, borders and so on. As a result, these two types of graphics file usually take up 80% of the total graphics used in a website. Of course, there's the GIF, which is very popular. But as it supports only 256 colors, it is losing its popularity day by day. PNG seems to be a all rounder winner for all kinds of graphics need. As all browsers support PNG well enough and PNG supports alpha transparency, it's surely the best format so far on the web for all purpose graphics need for websites. So, if you can optimize all PNG and JPEG on your website and compress them rigorously, you can easily shed off several seconds of load time from your website without doing any coding. Especially if your website is graphics rich like Pageflakes, 30% reduction in total size of graphics throughout the website is a big performance win.