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How do we deliver high-quality images fast online? Meet Image Optimization, our new book on just that: from formats and compression to delivery and maintenance. 528 pages. Written by Addy Osmani. Jump to table of contents.

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About The Book

There is no shortage in high-res photos around us, but how do we encode, compress and serve them to browsers to be rendered quickly? In fact, some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy.

That’s why we’ve teamed up with Addy Osmani to work on Image Optimization — our practical new guide to image compression and image delivery, tools and techniques to automate optimization, responsive images, image CDNs, lazy-loading, how browsers load, decode and render images, and how to optimize for Core Web Vitals. Jump to the table of contents.

You’ll learn:

• Modern and emerging image formats,
• Image compression,
• How to speed up image rendering,
• Image maintenance,
• Lazy-loading and techniques like SQIP,
• Image CDNs and how to set up one,
• AVIF, JPEG XL, and HEIF, their pros and cons,
• Automating image optimization,
• Adaptive image delivery for network conditions,
• Core Web Vitals and how to optimize for them.
• eBook is available, print shipping early June.
• Download a free PDF sample (12 MB)
• Get the book right away.

As always, Smashing Members (US$5 and US$9 tiers) get the eBook for free, with a friendly discount for the printed book. We’d love to welcome you into the wonderful, friendly Smashing Family. Meow! ;-)

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Thank You!

With Image Optimization, we’ve tried to create a very focused handbook with pragmatic solutions to help you improve your image loading strategy and be more deliberate and informed when dealing with images.

A sincere thank you for your kind, ongoing support, patience and generosity, for being smashing, now and ever.

Hope to meet you soon! ;-)
Vitaly and The Smashing Family (help@smashingmagazine.com)
https://www.smashingmagazine.com

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