How Image Compression Works

  <span class="eyebrow">Engineering • Web Performance • Privacy</span>

  <h1>How Image Compression Works</h1>

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    An image compressor reduces the file size of a picture by removing redundancy, simplifying how pixel data is stored, and sometimes discarding details that most people will not notice.
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      <b>Core Idea</b>
      <span>Reduce redundant data</span>
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      <b>Types</b>
      <span>Lossless & Lossy</span>
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      <b>Privacy</b>
      <span>100% Local (WASM)</span>
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      <b>Speed</b>
      <span>Hardware Accelerated</span>
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    Image compression is one of the most important ideas behind a fast and efficient web. A photo from a modern camera or phone can be several megabytes in size, but most of that data is not equally important to how the image looks to a human viewer.
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    "The best compression methods reduce file size by removing what the eye is least likely to miss."
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