Optimise images (52 KB reduction)

[imageoptimiser]

Hi, afeld.

I've taken the liberty of putting mustachio's image assets though a range of optimisation tools. Image optimisation allows us to reduce the footprint of images - meaning faster load times at no cost to image quality. It does this by finding the best (lossless) compression parameters, stripping embedded comments, and removing unnecessary colour profiles. See more.

I found 11 optimisable images, making a 52 KB reduction in size. That's about 11.99% of your total image assets.

Merry Christmas.

Name	Reduction
dubya.jpeg	1.63%
guy_hecker.jpeg	0.45%
colonel_mustard.png	48.61%
grand-handlebar.png	54.13%
mustache_03.png	42.75%
mustache_07.png	41.42%
painters-brush.png	49.05%
petite-handlebar.png	53.01%
big_obama.jpeg	6.60%
dubya.jpeg	1.63%
small_obama.jpeg	13.79%

Tools used: advpng, gifsicle, jpegoptim, jpegrescan, jpegtran, optipng, pngcrush, pngout. This is an automated bot maintained by @skattyadz

[willglynn]

Incidentally, those "unnecessary color profiles" are actually honored by some browsers (including Chrome on OSX), and the optimized versions look worse to me:

The original image is actually in the Adobe RGB color space. Stripping the color profile causes the color values to be interpreted as sRGB, which is not correct.

[afeld]

Interesting - I hadn't even looked at the diff yet. I probably won't pull this in for the sample images anyway since those are small potatoes. Reducing the mustache image file size might speed up those convert times, though. I wonder if using SVG would be even more effective.