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#PREPROS VS CODEKIT HOW TO#
#PREPROS VS CODEKIT GENERATOR#
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#PREPROS VS CODEKIT DOWNLOAD#

With this in your CSS, the browser will encounter the background-image line then go and download the icon.png file. These are called Data URIs.ĭata URIs are great for small PNGs, like icons, and also work really well for small SVGs. Looking at Roboto, the typeface I used above, these are my file size reductions:įor really small graphics it makes more sense to embed them directly into your CSS or HTML instead of forcing the browser to open another request and download the file.

#PREPROS VS CODEKIT UPDATE#

Then copy the CSS from the CSS file into the top of your CSS-you may have to update the font paths at the top of the CSS you copied-and-pasted. I usually go with “Expert…” and only choose “WOFF” for the font formats because, according to Can I Use, it has good enough browser support-custom fonts are a luxury, not a must have.Īfter you’ve downloaded the font package, put the font files in your website, maybe a folder named fonts- or ideally on a CDN. The “Optimal” setting is likely what you need.

#PREPROS VS CODEKIT GENERATOR#

Go to FontSquirrel’s Web Font Generator and upload the styles and weights of the fonts you’re planning on using. Google Fonts provides a limited sub-setting of their typefaces, but you can download the fonts and run them through another system to truly reduce the file size. Removing characters from the font file is called sub-setting. For example, if your website is only in English you can remove a bunch of characters from the font file. But, depending on the site you’re making you may only need a few of those characters. Most typefaces come with many characters so they can support lots of different languages.

#PREPROS VS CODEKIT HOW TO#

See the advanced SVG tutorial on how to embed SVGs in HTML. If an SVG image is used only once on your website, on a single page, consider embedding it directly into the HTML. And ideally you should be able to run them through ImageAlpha to compress the images even further. ico file make sure to run you favicon PNGs through ImageOptim.

Smush the PNGs first - before creating the final.

Make sure it exists - the browser will automatically request it, so if it doesn’t exist there will still be a delay while attempting to fetch it.

Since favicons are automatically requested on every website there’s a few things you can do to increase their performance. Photos copyright elizabeth&jane photography. This one has a blurred background-102 KB. Literally take the blur tool in Photoshop and significantly blur out the background of the image. One way to significantly decrease the size of JPG files is to blur the sections that aren’t the focus. With the image you’re seeing above the size reduction was pretty great, with no noticeable loss of quality.

Check “Optimize with ImageOptim” to get an extra size reduction. Try to make the colours number as small as possible without destroying the integrity of the image.Īfter you’re finished you have to re-save the image over top, so go to the menu and go to File > Save As… and just overwrite your original PNG. Using the slider on the left, reduce the number of colours until the image doesn’t become distorted.

Open up ImageAlpha and drag and drop your PNG into its window. There’s another tool called ImageAlpha that allows us to take our PNG-24 graphics and convert them to PNG-8, reducing their colour palette but keeping nice transparency. When exporting our PNGs from Photoshop we always choose PNG-24 because Photoshop’s PNG-8 implementation isn’t correct, lacking 8-bit transparency.īut, PNG-8 has lots of performance gains because it can make much smaller file sizes with it’s limited colour palette. The difference between PNG-24 and PNG-8 is just the number of colours that can exist in the file: And for other website resources we can increase performance with just a little care.

☛ Make sure you follow all the steps in the basic performance tutorial first.įor images we always start by choosing the correct format, compressing as best we can, and running through ImageOptim. There’s a whole lot you can do to make your website faster before getting to these steps. There’s lots extra we can do to make our websites super fast and therefore our users super happy. Performance is one of the most important constraints of web design.