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I’ve been using the app ImageOptim for this use case (a stand-alone app, not something in the browser). Can recommend!
Imageoptim has been holding it down for some years when I need to quickly make an image smaller size.
Why does setting the quality to 100% make the resulting image size bigger than original? And if there's a reason, I think it should simply just return the original smaller image in those cases.
I'd like a CLI tool with the same features to batch-compress images.
You can use cwebp directly, that’s what squoosh cli used for webp before it was abandoned. Or imagemagick.
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I love squoosh! It’s been one of the few PWAs I have installed and actually use regularly.

Does anyone know if their optimization methods still best-in-class these days? It’s been good enough for all my practical needs, but I know it’s been around for a while and there may be better techniques for some file types now.

I love Squoosh. I have used it since it launched.

However, IIRC, Squoosh was built largely by Surma and Jake; or maybe they were just the "face" of the project. Either way, at one point it even had a CLI.

Since their departure from Google, the CLI project was abandoned and it feels like the web app is as well.

As is usual Google things, I think it's a matter of time until some PM discovers squoosh.app, and asks "What's this?" and then the thing gets killed.

Perhaps this HN post will be the thing that does it.