Fast and responsive images

Responsive design is taking the world by a storm and every team is converting their site to be on mobile or preparing to do that soon.

Few people however realize performance implications of this new approach to web development and one of the issues is images which represent more then 60% of all network payload and can congest wireless networks with data unnecessary for display on naturally smaller screens than desktop.

This issue gave birth to various Responsive Images techniques which are used to display “just right” size of the image for user’s device. There are several aspects of the issue that need to be considered, from formats and resolutions to content management and implementation code. When done wrong, performance can degrade much worse then original “desktop” approach, but with a few key features implemented right, can reduce payload size dramatically providing improved user experience.

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1. Fast & Responsive Images O'Reilly Velocity NY September 17, 2014
2. Sergey Chernyshev Organize NY Web Perf Tech. Dir. Web Sys. & App. Dev. at truTV / Turner @SergeyChe SergeyChernyshev.com
3. Responsive Design & Images May 25, 2010 http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/
4. Image Responsiveness Size "Art direction" Format / Encoding Bandwidth
5. Size in Pixels (resolution) Size in Kb on the wire in memory + decoding "Why we need responsive images" part I & part II by @TKadlec 1920px 320px
6. Size in Pixels (density) Multiply by 1 - 3x Kindle Fire HDX - 2560x1600 iPhone 6 - 1704x960 iPhone 5 - 1136x640 iPad 3, 4, Air - 2048x1536 MacBook Pro Retina - 2880x1800 http://dpi.lv/ - DPI Love by Lea Verou
7. Art Direction
8. Encoding: JPEG compression Lossy: 1-100 quality setting Lossless: removes metadata 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%
9. Encoding: Best Format JPEG WebP Chrome23+ Opera 12.1+ JPEG XR IE10+ PNG Gif -> PNG PNG -> JPEG SVG Web Site Optimization With Browser-Specific Image Formats calendar.perfplanet.com
10. Bandwidth Vary compression level Requires bandwidth detection Just plain hard Progressive JPEGs FTW! by @PatMeenan Alternative: use progressive JPEG
11. Integration: CMS Workflow Edit Optimize Deploy
12. Integration: Image Service Adaptive Images https://github.com/MattWilcox/Adaptive-Images SenchaSRC, LiquidPixels <img src="http://src.sencha.io/320/200/http://a.com/b.jpg" width="320" height="200" >
13. <picture>, srcset, sizes Now part of HTML spec In upcoming Chrome, Firefox and Opera, "under consideration" in IE
14. On The Page <?php img('/path/to/original.jpg') ?> 8 Guidelines and 1 Rule for Responsive Images http://blog.cloudfour.com/8-guidelines-and-1-rule-for-responsive-images/ Picturefill v2 by Scott Jehl https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill
15. Integration: Automation mod_pagespeed / ngx_pagespeed filters • rewrite_images • inline_images • recompress_images • convert_gif_to_png, convert_png_to_jpeg FEO from Akamai, Radware and others
16. 0.000 0.400 0.800 1.200 1.600 Small Medium Large 1.454 1.233 0.407 Homepage Image Sizes (Mb)
17. 0.000 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.000 Small Medium Large Source 3.818 1.454 1.233 0.407 Homepage Image Sizes (Mb)
18. Thank you! Sergey Chernyshev ! @SergeyChe ! @PerfPlanet ! sergey.chernyshev@gmail.com