Improving performance with responsive (and responsible!) images [CSSDay.io]

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1 Improving performance with responsive (and responsible!) images

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1 Improving performance with responsive (and responsible!) images Don’t tell
anybody, but this is an HTML talk.

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3 twitter @newtron github @nwtn slides nwtn.ca/d

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4 Web performance

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“ 5 Many of us are fortunate to live in
high bandwidth regions, but there are still large portions of the world that do not. By keeping your client side code small and lightweight, you can literally open your product up to new markets. —Chris Zacharias, Page Weight Matters (emphasis mine)

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“ 6 Good performance is good design. —Brad Frost

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7 Why images?

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8 —Marc Andreessen, www-talk, February 1993

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9 Fonts 114 KB CSS 74 KB Video 187 KB
HTML 52 KB Scripts 368 KB Other 4 KB Images 1,412 KB Total: 2,219 KB

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“ 11 More human beings today have access to a
cellphone than…a clean toilet. –Anand Giridharadas, New York Times April 10 2010

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13 — OpenSignal, Android Fragmentation Visualized (August 2014)

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14 —https://twitter.com/lukew/status/507880029737328640/photo/1

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15 A problem: We want images to look good e’rywhere

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16 img { max-width: 100%; }

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20 A solution: Serve one big image and let the
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23 Bullet 1 Bullet 2 Bullet 3

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26 more pixels = more energy more pixels = more
memory more pixels = more time

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27 A problem: We want images to look good e’rywhere

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28 A harder problem: We want images to look good
e’rywhere, without hurting the user experience

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29 Responsive images

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30 A solution: Serve one big image and let the
browser scale it

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31 A better solution: Serve an appropriate image to each
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35 SVG WebP JPEG XR JPEG 2000

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37 Using CSS is a bad idea.

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38 Using JavaScript is a bad idea.

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39 http://whatwg.org/html#the-picture-element Responsive images speciﬁcation

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40 Resolution switching Markup

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41 <img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" />

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42 <img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" srcset="wolf300.jpg 0.5x, wolf600.jpg 1x,
wolf1200.jpg 2x, wolf2400.jpg 3x, wolf4800.jpg 4x" />

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48 Viewport (and resolution!) switching Markup

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50 <img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" sizes="100vw" srcset="wolf300.jpg 300w, wolf600.jpg
600w, wolf1200.jpg 1200w, wolf2400.jpg 2400w, wolf4800.jpg 4800w" />

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55 <img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" sizes="600px" srcset="wolf300.jpg 300w, wolf600.jpg

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56 <img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" sizes="calc(100vw - 10em)" srcset="wolf300.jpg
300w, wolf600.jpg 600w, wolf1200.jpg 1200w, wolf2400.jpg 2400w, wolf4800.jpg 4800w" />

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57 <img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" sizes="100%" srcset="wolf300.jpg 300w, wolf600.jpg

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59 <img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" sizes="(min-width: 1000px) 33vw, (min-width:
600px) 50vw, 100vw" srcset="wolf300.jpg 300w, wolf600.jpg 600w, wolf1200.jpg 1200w, wolf2400.jpg 2400w, wolf4800.jpg 4800w" />

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60 <img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" sizes="(min-width: 1000px) 33vw, (min-width:
600px) 50vw, 100vw" srcset="wolf300.jpg 300w, wolf600.jpg 600w, wolf1200.jpg 1200w, wolf2400.jpg 2400w, wolf4800.jpg 4800w" />

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61 File type switching Markup

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63 <picture> <source type="image/webp" srcset="wolf4800.webp" /> <img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad
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67 <picture> <source type="image/webp" srcset="wolf4800.webp" /> <source type="image/vnd.ms-photo" srcset="wolf4800.jxr" />
<img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" /> </picture>

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68 <picture> <source type="image/webp" srcset="wolf4800.webp" /> <source type="image/vnd.ms-photo" srcset="wolf4800.jxr" />
<img src="wolf4800.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" /> </picture>

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69 Art direction Markup

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70 —Adventure Time

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74 <picture> <source media="(min-width: 1000px)" srcset="wolf-crop-bg.jpg" /> <source media="(min-width: 600px)"
srcset="wolf-crop-sm.jpg" /> <img src="wolf.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" /> </picture>

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79 All the things! Markup a.k.a. the scary slide

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79 All the things! Markup a.k.a. the scary slide

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80 <picture> <source type="image/webp" media="(min-width: 1000px)" sizes="33vw" srcset="wolf-crop-big-300.jpg 300w, wolf-crop-big-600.jpg
600w, wolf-crop-big-1200.jpg 1200w, wolf-crop-big-2400.jpg 2400w, wolf-crop-big-4800.jpg 4800w" /> <source type="image/webp" media="(min-width: 600px)" sizes="50vw" srcset="wolf-crop-small-300.jpg 300w, wolf-crop-small-600.jpg 600w, wolf-crop-small-1200.jpg 1200w, wolf-crop-small-2400.jpg 2400w, wolf-crop-small-4800.jpg 4800w" /> <source type="image/webp" sizes="100vw" srcset="wolf-crop-med-300.jpg 300w, wolf-crop-med-600.jpg 600w, wolf-crop-med-1200.jpg 1200w, wolf-crop-med-2400.jpg 2400w, wolf-crop-med-4800.jpg 4800w" /> <source media="(min-width: 1000px)" sizes="33vw" srcset="wolf-crop-big-300.jpg 300w, wolf-crop-big-600.jpg 600w, wolf-crop-big-1200.jpg 1200w, wolf-crop-big-2400.jpg 2400w, wolf-crop-big-4800.jpg 4800w" /> <source media="(min-width: 600px)" sizes="50vw" srcset="wolf-crop-small-300.jpg 300w, wolf-crop-small-600.jpg 600w, wolf-crop-small-1200.jpg 1200w, wolf-crop-small-2400.jpg 2400w, wolf-crop-small-4800.jpg 4800w" /> <source sizes="100vw" srcset="wolf-crop-med-300.jpg 300w, wolf-crop-med-600.jpg 600w, wolf-crop-med-1200.jpg 1200w, wolf-crop-med-2400.jpg 2400w, wolf-crop-med-4800.jpg 4800w" /> <img src="wolf-crop-med-600.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" /> </picture>

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<img src="wolf600.jpg" alt="A rad wolf" sizes="(min-width: 1000px) 33vw, (min-width: 600px)
50vw, 100vw" srcset="wolf300.jpg 300w, wolf600.jpg 600w, wolf1200.jpg 1200w, wolf2400.jpg 2400w, wolf4800.jpg 4800w" /> 81

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82 http://whatwg.org/html#the-picture-element Responsive images speciﬁcation

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83 http://codepen.io/Tigt/blog/when-responsive-images-get-ugly When responsive images get ugly

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84 You can use this now!

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85 Firefox (Gecko) Chrome/Opera (Blink) Safari (WebKit) Edge srcset +
sizes Works now! Firefox 38 Works now! Chrome 34 Opera 21 Works now! Safari 9 iOS 9 Works now! Edge 13 picture Works now! Firefox 38 Works now! Chrome 38 Opera 25 Almost there… Works now! Edge 13

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86 http://picturefill.responsiveimages.org/ Picturefill by Scott Jehl & others http://filamentgroup.com/lab/to-picturefill.html To
Picturefill, or not to Picturefill

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87 Responsive images are a pain in the butt

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89 https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-respimg grunt-respimg

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90 https://github.com/nwtn/php-respimg/ php-respimg

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https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-responsive-images-extender/ 91 grunt-responsive-images-extender

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http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/06/efficient- image-resizing-with-imagemagick/ Efﬁcient image resizing With ImageMagick 92

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93 Responsible images

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94 1. Responsive images

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95 1. Responsive images 2. Image optimization

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96 https://imageoptim.com/ ImageOptim https://github.com/toy/image_optim image_optim https://github.com/svg/svgo-gui SVGO-GUI https://github.com/svg/svgo SVGO

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97 SetOutputFilter DEFLATE AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE "image/svg+xml"

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98 1. Responsive images 2. Image optimization 3. Deferred image
loading (a.k.a. “lazy loading”)

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101 http://afarkas.github.io/lazysizes/ LazyLoad JS scripts and plugins, e.g.:

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loading (a.k.a. “lazy loading”) 4. CDNs & Caching

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loading (a.k.a. “lazy loading”) 4. CDNs & Caching 5. Appropriate contrast and colour

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107 http://colororacle.org/ Color Oracle

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loading (a.k.a. “lazy loading”) 4. CDNs & Caching 5. Appropriate contrast and colour 6. Text-based alternatives

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110 [alt] [aria-describedby] [aria-labelledby] [longdesc] <a> <figcaption> SVG

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111 http://www.w3.org/TR/html-alt-techniques/ HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_aria-describedby_to_provide_descriptions_of_images
Using aria-describedby to provide descriptions of images http://w3c.github.io/test-results/html-longdesc/cr-report.html longdesc Implementation Report http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2013/12/using-aria-enhance-svg-accessibility/ Using ARIA to enhance SVG accessibility http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_aria-labelledby_to_provide_a_text_alternative_for_non- text_content Using aria-labelledby to provide a text alternative for non-text content

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loading (a.k.a. “lazy loading”) 4. CDNs & Caching 5. Appropriate contrast and colour 6. Text-based alternatives 7. Fewer images!

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“ 113 Good performance is good design. —Brad Frost

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114 https://www.shopify.com/careers We’re hiring!

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115 twitter @newtron github @nwtn slides nwtn.ca/d

Improving performance with responsive (and responsible!) images [CSSDay.io]

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