Full disclaimer: guide's co-author here and proteusthemes.com business owner.
I know some people here will rage that this is not "PRO" stuff. At the same time, I see so many people who call themselves web professionals, failing to do the most basic things regarding the image optimization. A full week of work went into writing this article and the entire research. It is, to my knowledge, one of the most comprehensive solutions.
In a week since we've published it over 7k viewed the article and we're getting a great feedback. And we've already iterated it a little bit from the feedback we've received.
We focused in the online tools only, because otherwise you have to split by OS etc.
And in the desktop tools you usually have more control over the quality which makes it impossible to compare to each other.
btw I tried guetzli a while ago, it was a joke. Lots of hype, much worse results compared to tinypng for example. And it took minutes to process 2 mpix image on MBP.
Most of the article is platform-agnostic, because in the first part it covers the image formats, resizing down the the viewport/container and the online tools. None of that has to do a thing with WP. The last part only are WP plugins. You can skip that part easily :)
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In a week since we've published it over 7k viewed the article and we're getting a great feedback. And we've already iterated it a little bit from the feedback we've received.
Thanks, I am here to discuss things further :)
And in the desktop tools you usually have more control over the quality which makes it impossible to compare to each other.
btw I tried guetzli a while ago, it was a joke. Lots of hype, much worse results compared to tinypng for example. And it took minutes to process 2 mpix image on MBP.
And in the desktop tools you usually have more control over the quality which makes it impossible to compare to each other.