Other Benefits of Graphics Optimization
While this site's primary focus is to encourage individuals and organizations to reduce the size and download/display time of graphics within web pages, there are other powerful benefits to applying these same optimization techniques outside of internet-based solutions as well. Some of the more important and powerful solutions include:
Software and Gaming Development
Many of the programs that are in use today are using hundreds of graphics to help make up their on-screen interfaces, buttons, help tutorials, etc. Software and gaming developers often do not take the additional step to optimize their graphics as a part of their development efforts, which can ultimately result in larger consumption of RAM and slower program performance. Optimizing graphics can make a positive improvement in the performance of these programs, especially if the programs are very graphics-intensive.
File Storage Solutions
In addition to reducing the storage demands in the browser caches of the individuals who are viewing our web sites, most individuals with personal computers also have a number of digital images on their computers which might never appear on a web site, but could very-well benefit from applying these same techniques to reducing their overall file size. Optimizing these graphics can result in literally tens or even hundreds of megabytes of hard drive space not being consumed to store the exact same information.
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