Last year, a chat with @colinbendell caused me to question my understanding of image quality and web performance.

A recent Cloudinary survey reminded me of Colin’s insight. It spurred me to dig in further and changed some of my priors.

See the images that changed my mind and read my new recommendations for ecommerce images.

https://cloudfour.com/thinks/new-recommendations-for-ecommerce-images/

#webperf #webperformance #ecommerce

I revisit this article from @colinbendell about videos files in img src every so often. It is full of useful information about the problems with animated gifs and the newer formats of animated webp and PNG. And the solution is so tantalizing. https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2017/animated-gif-without-the-gif/

Unfortunately, Chrome doesn’t support it. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=791658#c36

There was some discussion about adding it to the HTML standard, but it appears to have died out. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7141