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Everyone wants to have a lean website. You know, the one that loads instantly and people never complain that it’s too slow or it takes forever to see what you want to see. One of the biggest factors towards having a lean website, especially for artists who are showing off a portfolio, is by having small (datawise) images. How can you accomplish that? By compressing your images, of course. But when it comes to artists, image compression isn’t simply as cut and dry. If you’re a business offering a non-visual service (like cleaning, or plumbing), compressing your images isn’t a…

I just went through an interesting couple of hours. On top of being a web developer, social media manager, and general many-hatted SEO adventurer, I’m also a freelance illustrator. Anyone who is an illustrator, photographer, or visual artist knows that image quality is really, really important — especially when displaying portfolios and the like. It’s with this in mind when I’m developing for visually creative clients that I keep quality in my thoughts always (as well as compression optimization keeping the page load speed in mind). I ran into something very curious, though. I noticed on my own portfolio website,…