Image Carbon: Optimize & Save the Planet

Carbon Calculator for Website Images

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Carbon Calculator for Website Images

55 followers

🌎 How much carbon are your website images producing? Image Carbon helps you uncover the carbon emissions from your website images and how optimization can help reduce your footprint.

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Image Carbon: Optimize & Save the Planet

Maker

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Hey everyone, Speaking with one of my colleagues, a particular statement started making me think: > 99.88% of images are not being sent in the optimal format Imagine a scenario where overnight, all websites around the world started optimizing their images (and videos). How much carbon would that save? While there's a lot of awesome tools out there, none of them focus specifically on images (or media) and how optimization can help, which is where Image Carbon comes in. Test your site and see what kind of impact you can have by optimizing your images!

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3yr ago

Great site with an even better message

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3yr ago

Image Carbon: Optimize & Save the Planet

Maker

@james_grubb thanks James, 100% agree!

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3yr ago

Always SMPL

LOVE THIS, Colby! What a fantastic idea! I'm looking forward to seeing what I can learn about my own properties online. Good luck with the launch!

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3yr ago

Image Carbon: Optimize & Save the Planet

Maker

@irreverentmike1 thanks for the support Mike! glad you're able to find it helpful 🙌

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3yr ago

Stumbled

I just tried the tool with a couple of my sites, and the results are not what I expected. All of the images have WebP versions, yet the tool loads the fallback JPG or PNG variants. Also, it's weird that lossy AVIF is suggested for all images. It looks like the tool is just trying to squeeze every bit out of the images with every option. I tried converting some example images to the suggested AVIF size and the pictures definitely look worse than the WebP or PNG counterparts. I would suggest setting more sensible compression options for AVIF. In most cases it's not an option for sites to reduce the quality of their images to save 5kb.

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3yr ago

Image Carbon: Optimize & Save the Planet

Maker

@kovah_kvh hey Kevin do you have an example of where you saw the quality drop with avif? Right now the tool scrapes the url from the src on the image, I'll be adding srcset support soon. If you're not optimizing the src for some reason that may be the reason

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3yr ago