jpeg optimizer?

Phaser

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I'm currently designing a website and have created a great image to use as the background.

However, it's 132kb ish, and I think thats a bit too large. Can anyone reccomend any image optimizers? What size should I be aiming for? It's 760x784.

Thanks.
 
Imageready's probably the best there is for Jpeg (aka Photoshop's 'save-for-web' option).

As a background, presentational image, you should be aiming for about 10-25KB, depending on what other objects are on the page (scripts, images, css) and the size of the HTML.

30Kb is the oft-quoted figure for the optimum size of a page (html+objects), but with broadband now so common many sites are successfully weighing in nearer 100KB. All depends on your audience and context.

Rather than just trying to compress the image, there are a few other options for reducing the size of a background image.
  • Can you repeat or tile any parts of the image - if you can make up 40% of the image by tiling a 2kb image then that will yield a huge saving.
  • Is jpeg the best method for your image? PNG may yield better compression.
  • Does the image need to be full-colour, can it be reduced to an 8-bit palette?
 
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