ianscott
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I've been in web development since 1998. Back when we hand-coded everything - and built e-commerce sites with PERL and cgi. We built websites back then with internet users using a 14K modem. Small images, usually progressive jpegs.
From MY perspective, I am seeing a LOT of new "web developers" who have no clue. Like Conor wrote above, regarding 2 MB images, I see a lot of this useless image file size on websites, and web developers doing things to try to "make a site look good," but in reality, it's just a pain for visitors to find the information they are looking for.
I recently took over a site that was built by some guy who does video and decided to call himself a web developer - he built the site with Divi (in my opinion, unless it's changed recently, a totally bloated and site speed slowing tool), and EVERY image on the site was over 2 MB! There were about 12 images on the front page alone. Instead of resizing them and optimizing them, he had just used the original images.
The home page literally took over 20 seconds to load on a fast network.
There are far too many lazy "web developers" (and to call them that is really not correct) who don't know anything about optimizing web sites. And this is true for lots of optimizations including SEO, optimizing for accessibility (heck many so-called web developers have no clue that in Ontario, all websites in the Province will be subject to their accessibility regulations) by next year.
Website speed is not only important for SEO (sure, it's perhaps a minor bit), but also for data costs as well. When you'e got a web page that means downloading tons of MB's of files, that's expensive to the end user, on mobile.
Further, where I live, there are still many people outside of town who do not have access to high-speed internet. Many web developers totally forget about this fact, or don't care.
I have my own solutions that work well including simply creating static sites where that works. But image optimization is a big thing that many people today don't seem to bother spending the time on.
From MY perspective, I am seeing a LOT of new "web developers" who have no clue. Like Conor wrote above, regarding 2 MB images, I see a lot of this useless image file size on websites, and web developers doing things to try to "make a site look good," but in reality, it's just a pain for visitors to find the information they are looking for.
I recently took over a site that was built by some guy who does video and decided to call himself a web developer - he built the site with Divi (in my opinion, unless it's changed recently, a totally bloated and site speed slowing tool), and EVERY image on the site was over 2 MB! There were about 12 images on the front page alone. Instead of resizing them and optimizing them, he had just used the original images.
The home page literally took over 20 seconds to load on a fast network.
There are far too many lazy "web developers" (and to call them that is really not correct) who don't know anything about optimizing web sites. And this is true for lots of optimizations including SEO, optimizing for accessibility (heck many so-called web developers have no clue that in Ontario, all websites in the Province will be subject to their accessibility regulations) by next year.
Website speed is not only important for SEO (sure, it's perhaps a minor bit), but also for data costs as well. When you'e got a web page that means downloading tons of MB's of files, that's expensive to the end user, on mobile.
Further, where I live, there are still many people outside of town who do not have access to high-speed internet. Many web developers totally forget about this fact, or don't care.
I have my own solutions that work well including simply creating static sites where that works. But image optimization is a big thing that many people today don't seem to bother spending the time on.
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