Hey HN,
I created PixSpeed to optimize images for my own websites. While tools like TinyPNG are fantastic, I wanted a more custom solution. PixSpeed compresses PNG, JPEG, and WebP images efficiently, helping to improve site loading times without compromising quality.
I've been using it myself and hope it can be useful for others as well.
The tool is completely free.
I'd love to get feedback on what could make PixSpeed even better.
Thanks!
The best feature of my purpose-built static site generator is that it automatically builds (mostly) optimized WEBPs from any source image [1]. Not only does it reduce the image size, but it outputs many sizes of the image so that I can use an image `srcset`. The browser then automatically downloads the optimally sized image for the element.<p>It's a game changer to be able to copy photos directly from my Google Photos and not worry about it bloating my web pages.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/JosephNaberhaus/naberhausj.com/blob/058469053bef4fb41c8662fbc95007b7c524d905/builder/handlers/image/handler.go#L72-L94">https://github.com/JosephNaberhaus/naberhausj.com/blob/05846...</a>
I have long felt that the best way to optimize photograph JPEGs was to scale them to the right size and then have a human turn the quality down until just before the eye notices a decrease in quality, and this has worked well for me. But I have to say, you beat me in the two images I tested, one by 30% file size, and I could not discern a quality difference. Very nice!<p>Or maybe I have just been clinging to notion too long?<p>FYI, your tester did miss an image that my site was including via in the style sheet.
This is super cool
<a href="https://flyimg.io" rel="nofollow">https://flyimg.io</a><p>especially when you cannot control what images users upload