Top banner weight

[Mark0]

I just noticed that the (beautyful!) top banner is an over 80KB PNG:



Isn't that a bit too much? I checked because I noticed it downloading when going to the homepage. I had probably cleaned the web cache, and saw it appearing nearly row-by-row.

So, I tried to come up with a couple of more lighter JPEG versions, without sacrificing too much quality:

(30KB)
(20KB)

What do you think?

Bye!

[mouser]

very good point, it makes sense to me and 80k is a bit heavy.  anyone else want to take a shot at optimizing? the 20k one looks a bit too noisy to me but i could live with the 30k one, and i lthink it looks nice a little lighter.

[Mark0]

Same for the forum top banner. The orginal PNG is about 34KB:



JPEG version:

(10KB)

Bye!

[app103]

There seems to be a color difference between the original and your compressed versions.

I tried it myself and came up with this at 10% compression:


34kb


14kb

Can't really go higher than 10% or there is a noticeable difference in quality. (noticeable to me at least)

[vegas]

Maybe a preference in board settings for each person, if they don't want to see big banners.    The smaller the better for me, more read space without having to scroll.  So reply #2 is my fav

[jgpaiva]

@vegas: notice that the matter here isn't the size in pixels of the banner, that is to be kept. What Mark0 means is that the current banners are too space-consuming due to lack of compression.

My opinion about this matter is that as long as the lack of quality isn't noticeable, it should be reduced. But i really don't make much fuzz about it because it's mostly loaded from opera's cache.
It might matter in terms of DC bandwidth, tough.

[f0dder]

By reducing the image to 8bpp, the png shrinks to ~25kb. There's some color banding and stuff, but I think it's not *too* bad. If somebody did a bit of manual work instead of just reducing the color depth, I'm pretty sure an 8bpp and goodlooking version could be created.