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aren't a lot of these things already handled by web servers and browsers? (caching. gzip compression, etc...)

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Founder here,

yes caching and gzip is done by web servers. Clodui does much more than that

* minification of CSS, JS and HTML

* automatic webp image generation, dynamic image resize

* and the website is served via CDN, which connects to the nearest CDN server

* automatic form handling etc...

We're really targeting users with less technical knowledge in server-side but creates awesome websites.

Does it really make sense to "minify" everything when you have gzip enabled?

minify saves a few bytes per file but image optimization feature reduces your website size considerably. Usually, people rely on image CDNs to do this, we provide it with hosting service itself.

webp isn't supported at all by Safari, on any platform. Is there any kind of intelligent fallback in case you have Apple users?

we fall back to the original image when webp is not supported by the browser

Fallback server-side based on Accepts? Or JS based fallback, or fallback based on user agent, or...?

Sorry. There are a lot of ways of doing this, with a lot of services that choose... Interesting... ways of doing it.

yes, the fallback is done on the server-side based on the accept header

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