• shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    You get the exact same quality at around ~25% smaller than other image formats. Unfortunate that it’s not supported by everything, but yeah it’s a better image format practically in that sense.

    On the web this saves money when storing at a large scale, and it can have a significant impact on page speed when loading websites on slower connections.

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      10 months ago

      Save a lot more debloating your code. Storage is cheap. Processing power is not.

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        10 months ago

        There are still places where bandwidth is a bottleneck, even on internal network is essential to optimize for bandwidth