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SVG optimization with trade-off charts, 100% in-browser

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24 pointsjrd7910 comments

Hi, I'm the author of this tool, happy to answer any questions. Built it to get more nuanced insight into the per-image tradeoffs at varying levels of compression, and to get something that supports SVG. Most of our assets are SVGs these days, and other image optimizers don't give you trade-off graphs and most don't support SVGs.

The algorithm does pick a reasonable trade-off so you don't have to futz with the graphs if you don't want to.

(Your images never hit our servers, which is why this can and will stay free)

Hi, any chance you’ll be releasing the code? It’s a really well done little project.

The PNG code is based on UPNG.js, the SVG is based on SVGO.js, the JPG is based on MozJpeg (run through Emscripten), and the charts are done with Chart.js.

The rest is just some web workers, the UI code, and a small quantity of HTML and CSS.

The goal of the project was to realize the vision of the trade-off chart, and to build an essentially serverless image compression tool so that it could be totally free without burning server dollars.

This is fantastic, and going to be very underrated by HN. The visualisation is extremely useful.

Thanks. You seem to be spot on about the HN community not finding this interesting. We've announced a number of projects on HN over the years and while I didn't think it was a slam dunk I did expect a better reception than this. Oh well.

This is really cool! Incredibly useful but also beautifully polished. Well done!

Very neat! It would be great if it were also available as a desktop app. How does it compare to ImageOptim (or does it use it in the background?)

You can always save a Chrome shortcut to your desktop, but the app is entirely serverless javascript, so making a desktop app would be not much more than that, but with the disadvantage of not getting the Chrome updates.

That blue is hard to read...

Yeah, super painful on the eyes. Ouch!

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