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Bandwidth Help 2: Most of the site's bandwidth is used by images. This is where everyone of us has to help.
Optimize your pictures! Here are a few rules of thumb:
Photos should be saved and posted as JPG.
JPG is good for photo-realistic images.
Drawings and images with solid colours (like screen captures) should be saved and posted as
PNG or GIF.
99% of the times,
PNG compresses better than GIF.
When saving to JPG
try to achieve a compromise between quality and filesize but focus on the latest.
Save as
progressive JPEG and remove EXIF information.
Also try to use the apropriate
subsampling on your image editing aplication, here's an example: