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This is something we can use. I just tried an image and mediacrush gave me a URL of the hosted image. I compared the size of the original image vs the one on MediaCrush. They were both same (130kb) Am I missing something? Or there is nothing to optimize in the image that I used?

Edit: Just realized the original image is optimized by Cloudflare Pro account. I guess they work well.

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We recently disabled some optimizations to reduce processing time while we overhaul the backend processing system to support async processing. Usually, we run PNG files through optipng and JPGs through jhead (the latter isn't very effective).

Response to your edit: heh, I guess it wasn't that easy to optimize in the first place. If you want to see how well we usually treat it, run `optipng -o5 foobar.png`

Thanks, will check out other images.

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